Private eyes update#

The film ends with their car careening down the road as they scream in terror, due to the sudden appearance of a wookalar from the sarcophagus. The heiress is arrested and Winship and Tart are thanked with a gift of a very rare sarcophagus, which is placed in their car.Īs Winship and Tart drive away, they argue over the existence of creatures known as 'wookalars,' said to be manlike creatures with superhuman strength and a pig-like face. As Morley explains what he did, the members of the staff appear, having faked their own deaths as part of the plan. Morley remained 'dead' (in hiding) as part of the plan, writing the letter to Scotland Yard in order to request Winship and Tart as investigators, presumably because of their incompetence. Morley had escaped the car crash and gathered the staff to gain their help in a plan to get the heiress to confess to the murder of his wife and the attempt on his own life. The shadow scares her to the point that she faints, at which time the shadow takes off his cape, revealing himself to be Lord Morley.

Planning to kill the detectives and escape the mansion, she falls backward into a flower bed while retreating, where she is grabbed by the shadowy figure, who has been hiding in the dirt. She then confesses to having killed the Morleys for their money as she has a gambling habit.

Once out of the garbage, they find the heiress taking the Morley money and preparing to leave the mansion. While Tart clumsily searches for a way to help, the caped figure ('The Shadow') leaps out to rescue Winship from the trap.Ī boa constrictor then frightens them into a trash compactor, where they survive being compressed into a bale of garbage. After discovering the manor's numerous hidden passages, the detectives wind up in a ' torture chamber' and Winship is caught in a deadly trap.

Private eyes update#

Their attempts to update Scotland Yard via homing pigeon are continuously thwarted, typically by the death of the pigeon. However, each of their bodies disappear before the detectives can show them to the heiress. They encounter the attractive heiress - the Morley's adopted daughter Phyllis Morley (Trisha Noble) - and are introduced to the manor's questionable staff.Īs the two investigate the murder, each of the staff, which includes a samurai, a hunchback, a busty maid, a gypsy, and an insane butler, are seemingly killed. Tart (Conway), two American detectives transferred over to Scotland Yard because of problems in the United States, travel to the Morley mansion, brandishing a letter from the late Lord Morley asking them to investigate his own murder. The film opens early in the twentieth century, at an English country mansion with the apparent murder of Lord and Lady Morley in their car by a figure in a black cape.