Lady in the Death House (1944)
Plot: The film is a low-budget, fast-paced film noir/crime drama. A young woman named Mary Kirk Logan is convicted and sentenced to the electric chair for the murder of a blackmailer who was threatening her family. The film's suspense is heightened by a cruel twist of fate: her fiancГ©, Dr. Dwight 'Brad' Bradford, is a research scientist who reluctantly works as the state's executioner to finance his experiments on reviving dead tissue. Convinced of Mary's innocence, a famous criminologist, Charles Finch, races against the clock to find the real killer before Mary walks the "last mile" and her fiancГ© is forced to pull the switch on the woman he loves. The climax involves a desperate scramble to get the governor's attention to halt the execution before it's too late.
