Mystery House (1938 film)

Mystery House
Directed by Noel M. Smith
Written by Sherman L. Lowe
Robertson White
Mignon G. Eberhart (novel)
Starring Dick Purcell
Ann Sheridan
Cinematography L. William O'Connell
Distributed by Warner Brothers-First National Productions
Release dates
  • May 21, 1938
Running time
56 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Mystery House is a 1938 mystery-crime film, directed by Noel M. Smith and starring Dick Purcell and Ann Sheridan as nurse Sarah Keate, and is based on the 1930 novel The Mystery of Hunting's End by Mignon G. Eberhart. Sheridan also played the same character in The Patient in Room 18, released in January 1938, while Aline MacMahon played her in While the Patient Slept in 1935.

Plot

At a hunting lodge retreat, banker Hubert Kingery (Eric Stanely) announces to five fellow officers that one of them has forged documents and embezzled $500,000. Before the evening is over, Kingery is shot dead and the police officially rule it a suicide. Kingery's daughter Gwen (Anne Nagel) doesn't agree and asks for help from her aunt's nurse, Sarah Keate (Ann Sheridan), who suggests her detective boyfriend, Lance O'Leary (Dick Purcell), for the case. O'Leary has all of the suspects return to the lodge and begins his investigation. Stuck in the snowbound shelter, the suspects and victims begin to pile up.

Cast

Release

The film was released theatrically by Warner Bros. in May 1938. It was never officially released on any home video format until issued by the Warner Archive Collection in October 2010 as part of a six-film horror/mystery DVD set.[1]

References

  1. "WB Horror/Mystery Double Features". Warner Archive. Retrieved 2012-02-03.

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