SING SING NIGHTS (1934) Conway Tearle, Boots Mallory & Hardie Albright | Crime, Drama, Mystery | B&W

Sing Sing Nights is a 1934 American film directed by Lewis D. Collins, based on the 1927 novel by American Author Harry Stephen Keeler.

SYNOPSIS
A respected war correspondent is found murdered, with three bullets--from three different guns--in him. Three different men are arrested, convicted and sentenced to death for the murder, but only one can be the actual killer. A criminologist sets out to find who is really guilty.

Three men have been convicted of the same murder of the, admittedly, quite reprehensible Floyd Cooper, and sit on death row awaiting execution the following morning. However, only one bullet could have struck the victim first, so only one of the three men is actually guilty of murder, since "the other two shot into a corpse," and so must be innocent; but which two? Professor Varney's machine, a kind of lie detector, will determine who is guilty as each man tells the story of how he came to know, hate, and kill the victim.

CAST & CREW
Conway Tearle as Floyd Cooper
Ferdinand Gottschalk as Prof. Varney
Hardie Albright as Howard Trude
Jameson Thomas as Robert McCaigh
Berton Churchill as Gov. Duane
Boots Mallory as Ellen Croft
Mary Doran as Anne McCaigh
Henry Kolker as Kurt Nordon
Lotus Long as Li Sung
Richard Tucker as Attorney General
George Baxter as Sergei Krenwicz

Directed by Lewis D. Collins
Written by Charles Logue (additional dialogue), Marion Orth (screenplay)
Based on Sing Sing Nights (novel) by Harry Stephen Keeler
Produced by Paul Malvern
Cinematography Archie Stout
Edited by Carl Pierson
Production company Monogram Pictures
Release date 1934
Running time 60 minutes
Country United States
Language English

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