Niall MacGinnis

Torture Garden -- Anthology film consisting of four stories bookended by Burgess Meredith as Dr. Diabolo, a carnival barker, who provides four patrons with glimpses into their future.

Torture Garden -- Anthology film consisting of four stories ('Enoch,' 'Terror over Hollywood', 'Mr. Steinway', and 'The Man who Collected Poe') bookended by Burgess Meredith as Dr. Diabolo, a carnival barker, who provides four patrons with glimpses into their future. The final episode in which Poe's spirit is conjured up from the great beyond is especially effective.

An aeronautical engineer predicts that a new type of airplane will fail after a certain amount of time in the air, and then he finds himself onboard one of the doomed planes while headed to a crash site.

Alan Ladd goes to South Africa, to find out what happened to money he invested. He is attracted to Joan Tetzel, who is on her way to search for her missing whaler father. When he finds that he can't get his money back from his crooked partner, Ladd signs up as first mate on the boat Tetzel is using to hunt for her father.