A 1921 murder mystery where hypnosis is the alibi and the clock is ticking.
Clay Whipple is convicted of murdering the governor following an incident involving a cat's eye pin. Whipple is sentenced to death, but a mentalist named Psychic Jack believes he is innocent since Whipple had been hypnotized at the time of the murder. The psychic persuades the judge to grant the condemned man a retrial, and he sets out to uncover the identity of the real killer, during which time he manages to prevent a second murder from occurring.
Direction
William Desmond Taylor's final completed film before his infamous unsolved murder.
Production
Authentic 1920s spiritualist aesthetic with genuine period occult props.
Director
William Desmond Taylor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director William Desmond Taylor was murdered in 1922; his death remains one of Hollywood's most notorious unsolved cases, making this film eerily prescient.
The film capitalized on 1920s America's obsession with spiritualism and stage mentalism, popularized by performers like Eugene Burger's predecessors.
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