The dastardly Goddard filch up Dr. Farrington to his own invention , the solar - powered VFX Accumulator . Unless Dr. Farrington tell his undercover formula , when the Dominicus rises , it ’ll fry his adorable girl Gloria and himself .
1932’sMurder At Dawnis a bizarre and mostly pretty awful spectacle , involving two immature couples cowering and incline around the halls of an ancient mansion full of secret passages , while idle bodies pile up . And there ’s some plot about a Wall Street financier who ’s murdered , and the jurist who ’s investigating , and blah blah blah . But this clobber , postulate the fabulous solar - powered end electron beam , is pure gold – the Accumulator and its sizzling electrical effect were created by Kenneth Strickfaden , who ( not astonishingly ) also worked on Frankenstein . [ IMDB ]
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