A crashed plane that had a shrunken head aboard is the only clue to a mystery involving a secret code.A crashed plane that had a shrunken head aboard is the only clue to a mystery involving a secret code.A crashed plane that had a shrunken head aboard is the only clue to a mystery involving a secret code.
Bud Averill
- Museum Guard
- (uncredited)
Edward Earle
- E.R. Willard
- (uncredited)
John Elliott
- John the Butler
- (uncredited)
Fred Godoy
- Mendoza
- (uncredited)
Richard Hale
- Curator Raymond Halliday
- (uncredited)
Coulter Irwin
- Frank
- (uncredited)
Thomas E. Jackson
- Detective Captain Quinn
- (uncredited)
Frank Martin
- Narrator
- (uncredited)
Frank Mayo
- Gordon R. Mitchell
- (uncredited)
Mary Newton
- Karger's Nurse
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaSecond of the three 'I Love a Mystery' thrillers released by Columbia PIctures, based on the popular radio series of the same name that aired on the NBC radio network from 1939 to 1944.
- ConnectionsFollowed by The Unknown (1946)
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Enjoyable mystery programmer
"The Devil's Mask" (1946) is one of the "I LOVE A MYSTERY" series of B-movies produced by Columbia Studios, based on the then-popular radio show. Poker faced Jim Bannon heads up a duo of private detectives who appear in each of the mysteries.
This one begins after a shrunken head is found in the ruins of a crashed plane that was headed from California to Latin America. A woman, who believes that her step-daughter is planning to kill her, hires the pair of detectives.
The mystery deepens when the woman's butler is killed by a poison dart from a blow-gun similar to those used by the jungle tribe of head-hunters responsible for the shrunken head. Add a blackmailing psychiatrist, a crazy taxidermist, a ferocious black panther, a few nebulous characters of dubious repute, and you have an atmospheric little chiller that's most enjoyable.
You may be able to figure out who the killer is, but that won't stop you from searching out more of these neat little "I LOVE A MYSTERY" thrillers.
This one begins after a shrunken head is found in the ruins of a crashed plane that was headed from California to Latin America. A woman, who believes that her step-daughter is planning to kill her, hires the pair of detectives.
The mystery deepens when the woman's butler is killed by a poison dart from a blow-gun similar to those used by the jungle tribe of head-hunters responsible for the shrunken head. Add a blackmailing psychiatrist, a crazy taxidermist, a ferocious black panther, a few nebulous characters of dubious repute, and you have an atmospheric little chiller that's most enjoyable.
You may be able to figure out who the killer is, but that won't stop you from searching out more of these neat little "I LOVE A MYSTERY" thrillers.
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- Aug 31, 2001
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- Runtime1 hour 5 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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