The Devil's Mask (1946) DVD-R

Starring Anita Louise, Jim Bannon, Michael Duane, Mona Barrie, Barton
Yarborough
Directed by Henry Levin

Print: black/white
Runtime: 65 min.
Genre: mystery
Print Quality: B

Based on the "I Love a Mystery" radio program (where most of the stories
were told in serial fashion over several episodes): Searching through the
wreckage of a crashed airline, the police find five shrunken human
heads, and one of them is a white man with red hair. The head belonged
to an explorer, deemed lost on an expedition to South America, and is
tagged as a victim of jungle savagery. His daughter thinks otherwise, and
suspects foul-play outside the jungle. She hires a team of private
detectives to investigate, and points them in the direction of her
stepmother and a colleague of her father, who appears to be more than a
colleague of the stepmother. The detective, however, also looks in
another direction and vocation for the killer.