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Murder by Television

4.0 53 mins Thriller   Mystery   Horror   Science Fiction   1935
Cameo Pictures  
Director(s): Clifford Sanforth

Release Date: 01 Tue, Oct 1935

James Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent anywhere in the world, refuses to sell the process to television companies, who then send agents to acquire the invention any way they can. On the night of his initial broadcast Houghland is mysteriously murdered in the middle of his demonstration and it falls to Police Chief Nelson to determine who the murderer is from the many suspects present.

Casts of Murder by Television

Bela Lugosi

as Arthur Perry

June Collyer

as June Houghland

Huntley Gordon

as Dr. Henry M. Scofield

George Meeker

as Police Chief Nelson

Charles Hill Mailes

as James Houghland

Claire McDowell

as Mrs. Houghland

Hattie McDaniel

as Isabella

Allen Jung

as Ah Ling

Henry Hall

as Hammond

Charles K. French

as Donald M. Jordan

Larry Francis

as Mendoza

Billy Sullivan

as Reardon - Watchman (as William 'Billy' Sullivan)

William H. Tooker

as Allen (as William Tooker)

Ruth Cherrington

as Party Guest (Uncredited)

Wally Dean

as Party Guest (uncredited)

Sam Harris

as Party Guest (uncredited)

Lew Hicks

as Plainclothesman (Uncredited)

Frank Meredith

as Plainclothesman (Uncredited)

Dick Rush

as Detective (Uncredited)

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