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- When Captain Street's best friend Dan Grady is murdered, Street receives help from Chinese detective James Lee Wong and local newspaper reporter Bobbie Logan.
- Pong Lee, a Mephistophelian, saffron-skinned varlet, has for some time carried on this atrocious female white slave traffic, in which sinister business he was assisted by a stygian whelp, by name Hendricks. Pong writes Hendricks that he has need for five young girls, and so Hendricks sets out to secure them. Visiting a rural district, he has no trouble, by his glib, affable manner, in gaining the confidence of several young and pretty girls. Pong is on hand with a closed carriage to bag the prey. One of the girls, as she is seized, emits a yell that alarms the neighborhood and brings to the scene several policemen and a couple of detectives, who have long been on the lookout for these caitiffs. The Chinese get away with the carriage, however, and Hendricks by subterfuge throws the police on the wrong scent. One of the detectives is a woman, and possessed of shrewd powers of deduction, hence does not swallow the bald story of the villain, and exercises her natural acumen with success. She shadows Hendricks, and by means of a flirtation inveigles him to a restaurant, where she succeeds in doping his drink. He falls asleep and she secures the letter written by Pong, which discloses the hiding place of the Chinaman. This she immediately telephones to the police, and while so doing Hendricks awakes and starts off to warn his friends. He arrives at the old deserted house ahead of the police, but escape is impossible, so the police rescue the girls, but fail to secure Pong and Hendricks, who afterwards seize the girl detective, and taking her to the house, tie her to a post and arrange a large pistol on the face of a clock in such a way that when the hands point to twelve the gun is fired and the girl will receive the charge. Twenty minutes are allowed for them to get away, for the hands are now indicating 11:40. Certain death seems to be her fate, and would have been had not an accident disclosed her plight. Hendricks after leaving the place is thrown by a street car, and this serves to discover his identity, so he is captured and a wild ride is made to the house in which the poor girl is incarcerated. This incident is shown in alternate scenes. There is the helpless girl, with the clock ticking its way towards her destruction, and out on the road is the carriage, tearing along at breakneck speed to the rescue, arriving just in time to get her safely out of range of the pistol as it goes off. In conclusion we can promise this to be an exceedingly thrilling film, of more than ordinary interest.
- A secret agent poses as a wastrel to save his uncle's anti-gas formula from spies.
- Hilliary Clark, gem expert, is robbed of a valuable package of diamonds by his son, Edgar, and Edgar's crook accomplices. Walter, old Mr. Clark's favorite son, quarrels with Edgar, and his father takes away his revolver, emptying it of the shells, and letting them lie on his library table. The quarrel has grown out of an insult offered by Edgar to Walter's wife, Helen, and has no connection with the former's dual life of crime, which neither his father nor brother suspects. At noon that same day, Walter, entering the library, discovers his father dead in his chair. He opens the safe, finds the diamonds gone, and concludes that Clark has been robbed and murdered. Just then Edgar passes through the hall. Walter fires through the curtains at the supposed burglar. Edgar, unhurt, slips the diamonds into the pocket of his brother's coat, hanging in the hall, and rushes out for a policeman. Walter is found, the smoking revolver in his hand, the safe door open, his father dead, and the gems in his overcoat pocket. Both brothers are taken to jail. Helen secures a detective who finds, in addition to the exploded cartridge in the gun, a second shell on the floor. He also points out an imprint of the end of this shell on the surface of the mahogany bookcase opposite Clark's desk. The detective explains how the noon sun, focused on the cartridge, and refracted through the lenses of a pair of spectacles on the desk, has fired the bullet. Walter is released. Later, Edgar's guilt is uncovered, and he is sentenced to prison.
- When the Marquis of Deerminister dies, his nephew Nigel Villiers inherits the title, but Jim Callender, Nigel's enemy, decides to deprive him of the position. Among Callender's acquaintances is Lord Dolly, an uncle of Nigel, who schemes with Callender to prove that Nigel's father married his mother before the death of his first wife, thereby invalidating Nigel's title, which would then descend to Lord Dolly. Also as part of his revenge, Callender plots to blackmail Dudley Gore, brother of Nigel's sweetheart Dorothy, into stealing the crown jewels. To prove his ancestry, Nigel journeys to the monastery in Switzerland that contains his family records. Once there, he meets Callender, who has already purloined the documents. Dorothy arrives soon after and attempts to detain Callender while Nigel wrestles the papers from him. Callender falls to his death, and the papers and the jewels are returned to their rightful heirs.
- Dan was on his way to the station with a woman when suddenly they both collapse. They're brought to the hospital. Sam and Jim show up and learn that they were poisoned and that unless they know what they were poisoned with, they don't have much time. They learn that the woman went to the station and was saying that her life was being threatened and wouldn't say anything else. Dan brought her home and somehow convinced her to file a report. He was bringing her when they collapsed. Sam and Jim go to her apartment and see that they had coffee. So they take everything to be analyzed but there was no trace left. So they go to where she works and they learn that she spends time at a beach house. They go there and find a boy breaking in. They question him and he says that his father leased the house and that he and the woman are having a thing. They question the man and they learn he's a chemist and he could have access to the poison but he denies poisoning her. Sam comes up with a plan to make the perpetrator reveal the poison.
- Guests at a fancy dinner party are informed that their cocktails have been poisoned and that they will soon die.
- Frank Ward decides to remain in Scotland but wants a better deal. With everybody waiting for the predicted oil output, Shona uses her friendship with Donald to get an exclusive for the Gazette.
- A heavy storm arrives, and a Met Buoy has come loose from its anchor and is trapped between the legs of the rig. Frank Ward has to get seventy men to safety in case the weather causes a collapse.
- WITI-TV Channel 6, Milwaukee, Wisconsin aired the 1940 movie "The Fatal Hour" on their television series "Haunted".
- 2022– 43mPodcast Episode
- Featured movie "The Fatal Hour", starring Boris Karloff. Also Horror Host Tome presenting Robert Muldoon as Count Robula, host of "The Friday Frights", Witch Cinders' "Creepy Commercials"; as well as the regulars.
- Spurlock Holmes introduces "Mr. Wong's "The Fatal Hour" and the last chapter (13) in "The Green Hornet".
- 2015– 1h 43mTV EpisodeThe Professor presents the movie "The Fatal Hour" starring Boris Karlof.