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Film poster for Murder by Television
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Directed by | Clifford Sanforth |
Produced by | Harry Joe Brown |
Written by | Joseph O'Donnell |
Starring |
Bela Lugosi June Collyer Huntley Gordon George Meeker |
Music by | Oliver Wallace |
Cinematography | James S. Brown Jr. |
Edited by | Leslie F. Wilder |
Production
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Cameo Pictures Corp.
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Distributed by | Imperial Distributing Corp. |
Release date
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Running time
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55 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Murder by Television (1935) is an American mystery film starring Bela Lugosi, June Collyer, and Huntley Gordon. The film is also known as The Houghland Murder Case. The cast also includes Hattie McDaniel.
James Houghland (Mailes), 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 (Mowbray) to determine who the murderer is from the many suspects present.