
The Master Mystery
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3hrs
58mins
Directed by
Harry Grossman,
Burton L. King,
Starring
Harry Houdini,
Marguerite Marsh,
Ruth Stonehouse,
Edna Britton
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In this action-packed serial, government agent Quentin Locke infiltrates a corrupt patents company, only to run into the gleaming terror of its robot protector, the Automaton. In order to save the beautiful Eva Brent and find a cure for the dreaded Madagascar Madness, Locke suffers an inhuman array of tortures and physical restraints. He is chained, tied with barbed wire, padlocked in a crate and thrown in the water, tied beneath a descending elevator, strapped to an electric chair, and bound in an elaborate Oriental torture chamber.