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Lady in the Death House
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Detective: This isn't one of those tough cases which depends on clues.
[as Finch surreptitiously pockets a vital piece of evidence]
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Girl overheard at bar: So after all that, what could I do? I just had to accept the mink coat.
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Finch: [takes out a notebook] You might give me the names of all the other boys you know, that you go out with.
Suzy: All of them? I hope you've got plenty of paper.
Finch: Well, I could believe there'd be a long list.
Suzy: Oh, Mr Finch!
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Framed for murder, Mary Kirk Logan is on death row for killing a man who was blackmailing her family. Mary's boyfriend Dr. Dwight Bradford (Fowley), a scientist, is also the state executioner who must put his lover to death. Famous criminologist Charles Finch (Atwill) takes up the case and feverishly works to find the real killer before Mary is executed. A tense crime drama with a nail-biting end scene where Finch desperately attempts to reach the governor for a stay of execution just minutes before the switch must be thrown.
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