Under Cover of Night (1937)

Directors

George B. Seitz

Cast

Dean Jagger, Dorothy Peterson, Edmund Lowe, Florence Rice, Frank Reicher, Harry Davenport, Henry Daniell, Henry Kolker, Nat Pendleton, Sara Haden, Theodore von Eltz, Zeffie Tilbury

The story

A professor, Janet Griswald (Sara Haden), is about to announce a great discovery in physics when her jealous husband (Henry Daniell), who collaborated with her, causes her to have a heart attack by throwing her dog out a window. To cover up his heinous deed, he throws a ball the dog was playing with out the window also to make it seem the dog chased after it. When he can't find her notebook containing the discovery details, he ends up killing several other people.

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