Henry Kendall (John Gray), Ida Lupino (Mary Elton), John Mills (Ernest Elton), S. Victor Stanley (Albert Sims), George Merritt (police inspector), Felix Aylmer (coroner), Davina Craig (Amelia Wilkinson, the Elton maid), Fred Groves (Barnaby Rudd, the landlord).
Director: BERNARD VORHAUS. Screenplay: H. Fowler Mear, adapted from the novel by J. Jefferson Farjeon. Photography: Ernest Palmer. Film editor: David Lean. Art director: James A. Carter. Make-up: Charles. Assistant director: Arthur Barnes. Sound re-recording: Carlisle Mounteney. Producer: Julius Hagen.
A Real Art Production for H&S Films Ltd. U.K. release through Radio Pictures. U.S. release through Olympic in 1934. U.S. re-release in 1949 through Favorite Films. Not copyrighted in the U.S.A. U.K. release: August 1933. 68 minutes.
COMMENT: Henry Kendall is an absolute pain, which is a great shame, because this is otherwise a fascinating little mystery thriller, often most astutely directed in a lively and extremely inventive fashion.
This movie is also atmospherically photographed in both some splendid studio sets and moodily picturesque actual locations.
Miss Lupino makes a most attractive heroine (we love her cute, lacy, abbreviated, sexy negligee) though she seems to have little physical resemblance to the Ida Lupino she later became in Hollywood.
Mills, on the other hand, has a small role which he plays in his usual humdrum style.
S. Victor Stanley, not the most ingratiating of players, has the lion's share of the support roles, though Felix Aylmer comes into his own in a long scene as a prejudiced coroner.
Director: BERNARD VORHAUS. Screenplay: H. Fowler Mear, adapted from the novel by J. Jefferson Farjeon. Photography: Ernest Palmer. Film editor: David Lean. Art director: James A. Carter. Make-up: Charles. Assistant director: Arthur Barnes. Sound re-recording: Carlisle Mounteney. Producer: Julius Hagen.
A Real Art Production for H&S Films Ltd. U.K. release through Radio Pictures. U.S. release through Olympic in 1934. U.S. re-release in 1949 through Favorite Films. Not copyrighted in the U.S.A. U.K. release: August 1933. 68 minutes.
COMMENT: Henry Kendall is an absolute pain, which is a great shame, because this is otherwise a fascinating little mystery thriller, often most astutely directed in a lively and extremely inventive fashion.
This movie is also atmospherically photographed in both some splendid studio sets and moodily picturesque actual locations.
Miss Lupino makes a most attractive heroine (we love her cute, lacy, abbreviated, sexy negligee) though she seems to have little physical resemblance to the Ida Lupino she later became in Hollywood.
Mills, on the other hand, has a small role which he plays in his usual humdrum style.
S. Victor Stanley, not the most ingratiating of players, has the lion's share of the support roles, though Felix Aylmer comes into his own in a long scene as a prejudiced coroner.