A 61-minute fever dream where academia meets homicide and nobody's alibi holds water.
In this B potboiler, a college professor finds himself suspected of a murder on his school's campus.
Direction
Hillyer crams three acts into an hour like he's being chased.
Production
B-movie magic: one hallway, five suspects, infinite shadows.
Director
Lambert Hillyer
Scott Kolk
Larry Campbell (as Scott Colton)
Mary Russell
Betty Tisdelle
Thurston Hall
Prof. Tisdelle
Arthur Loft
Inspector Nat Corrigan
Gene Morgan
Flashlight
Ann Doran
Margie Blake
J. Farrell MacDonald
Coach Pearson
George Offerman, Jr.
Soupy Pettie
Nick Lukats
Roy Jennings
Roland Got
Kong Lee
Albert Dekker
Jeffrey Thompson (as Albert Van Dekker)
Ruth Hilliard
Babs
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Scott Kolk changed his name to Scott Colton for this role, then changed it back—Hollywood identity crisis in real time.
Extinction captured Depression-era suspicion of ivory towers: professors as either victims or villains, never trustworthy.
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