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I Killed That Man is a 1941 American mystery film directed by Phil Rosen and starring Ricardo Cortez, Joan Woodbury and Iris Adrian. Produced by the King Brothers for release by Monogram Pictures, it is a remake of the 1933 film The Devil's Mate which Rosen had also directed.
A man sentenced to death decides to come clean and tell the cops who hired him to do the killing. Just as he is about to confess he's killed by a poison dart.
Assistant District Attorney Roger Phillips, various reporters and other officials, gather at a prison to witness the execution of convicted killer Nick Ross. Before being strapped to the electric chair, Ross makes his first public confession, and says he has been protecting the identity of the man who ordered the killing.
I Killed That Man 1941 movie. 1940's Murder mystery full movie. Crime thriller, a death row prison inmate's premature death places all officials and witnesse...
I Killed That Man: Directed by Phil Rosen. With Ricardo Cortez, Joan Woodbury, Pat Gleason, George Pembroke. Just prior to his execution, a condemned murderer decides to tell the authorities who hired him to commit the murder.
I Killed That Man is a fairly typical Poverty Row mystery film. It tells the tale of a man on his way to execution on Death Row who is suddenly killed by a poison dart by an unknown assailant while in a crowded room. The remaining film details the investigation into who is responsible. To be honest there's nothing new here.
A gripping but implausible opening: a condemned man makes an impassioned speech just before heading to the electric chair. He is about to name the *real* murderer, but then...he drops dead from a poison dart in front of roomful of witnesses, including the DA (Ricardo Cortez).
