The Mad Magician
Don Gallico is an inventor of stage magic effects who aspires to become a star in his own right. Just before his first performance his act is shut down by capricious manager Ross Ormond who wants Gallico's brilliant buzz saw effect for the act of The Great Rinaldi, an established star. With this defeat, and the humiliation of having already lost his wife Claire to Ormond, Gallico decides it is time to take matters into his own hands.
Hot Rods to Hell
While on a business trip, Tom Phillips is in a car accident caused by a reckless driver. Tom survives the accident with a severe chronic back injury which results in him not being able to continue with his current business. The Phillips' buy a motel in the California desert and Tom with his wife Peg and their two children, Tina and Jamie make the long road trip to their new home. As they approach their destination they are terrorized by reckless teenage hot-rodders looking for kicks.
Hangover Square
When composer George Harvey Bone wakes with no memory of the previous night and a bloody knife in his pocket, he worries that he has committed a crime. On the advice of Dr. Middleton, Bone agrees to relax, going to a music performance by singer Netta Longdon. Riveted by Netta, Bone agrees to write songs for her rather than his own concerto. However, Bone soon grows jealous of Netta and worries about controlling himself during his spells.
Singapore
After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée, alluring Linda, and her disappearance during the Japanese attack. But now Linda resurfaces...with amnesia and married to rich planter Van Leyden. Meanwhile, sinister fence Mauribus schemes to get Matt's pearls.
Rio
Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and embezzlement and sentenced to a penal colony off the coast of South America.
The Lodger
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
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John Brahm
Director
Vincent Price
as
Don Gallico / Gallico the Great
Donald Randolph
as
Ross Ormond
Jeffrey Byron
as
Jamie Phillips
Arthur Tovey
as
Man Seated at Bar
Stuart Nisbet
as
Surgeon
Alan Napier
as
Sir Henry Chapman
Philip Ahn
as
Jimmy - Bartender
Ava Gardner
as
Linda Grahame / Ann Van Leyden
Roland Culver
as
Michael Van Leyden
Thomas Gomez
as
Mr. Mauribus
Sidney D'Albrook
as
Convict
Irving Bacon
as
'Mushy'
Eddie Hall
as
Prison Guard
Forrester Harvey
as
Cobbler
Charlie Hall
as
Comedian
Frank Hagney
as
Policeman
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