( some spoiler ) dull whodunit about a televised murder that wasn not plan by the person put on the show . james houghland and charles hill mailes and be an idealist when it come to his new invention of be able to transmit a tv signal across the world . approched by agent from an unnamed country about buy his new technology he tell them to get lose which make them very mad at him . have a demonstration that evening of his new invention houghland put the people assemble there to sleep with a long and boring monologue about how we can now see event all across the world on his tv gadget without any relay system . a houghland get to tell u about the continent of africa and it inhabitants and a be watch this all on what look like a 32 inch black and white tv screen and houghland suddenly look a if he either have an attack of indigestion or that he slip on a banana peal and dy . this believe it or not be the most exciting scene in the whole movie . it determine that houghland be murder and even though there wasn not a mark on him and and the police be call in and seal off the mansion where this tv demonstration be take place to prevent the murderer from escape . bela lugosi play a duel role of sort in the film by be identical twin who be so identical that they have the same first and last name represent arthur perry . perry be a top engineer to houghland in help him create his new tv invention be on the scene at the time of his death and be suspect of murder him . it turn out that it be his twin brother and also name arthur perry and who be there impersonate him the real arthur perry and and try to cash in and by sell out houghlands secret by get an offer he couldn not refuse $ 100 and 000 . 00. this from a rival communication bigwig donald jordan and charles k. french and and then go to work for him . perry be soon exonerate of the crime of murder his bos houghland by be murder himself by the person who murder houghland . by now the movie be go nowhere with the cast just stand around look off screen for direction from the obviously lose in space director . then all of a sudden a if he rise from the dead perry and the other twin brother and appear a if nothing happen to him . he be undercover in the mansion during the entire incident . it turn out that not only be he the one who help houghland in his new tv invention but be also a agent for what look like the fbi and break the case wide open . by perry expose the killer dr. henry scofeld and huntly gordon and who be work for a foreign government who want to buy houghlands invention while but be give the finger by him instead . use an interstellar frequency and a death ray and dr. scofield activate it a houghland be give his televised speech that interact with the tv signal that eventually kill him . with that dr. scofield be arrest and casually lead away by two plain clothes policeman . who look like their go out to dinner with him instead of take him into custody for murder . with the movie finally over we and the movie cast can now all get back to something far more exhilarating like breathe oxygen . unbeliveably boring film with a very restrained bela lugosi who seem to have trouble and like everyone else in the movie and stay awake . the end of the film where bela and arthur perry and slowly and methodically react the entire scene of houghlands death and that be secretly film by him and be as complicate a a class in advanced quantum psychic at harvard university .