Secret of the Blue Room
| Secret of the Blue Room | |
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| Directed by | Kurt Neumann |
| Produced by |
Carl Laemmle, Jr. Henry Henigson (uncredited) |
| Written by |
Erich Phillipi (writer of Geheimnis des Blauen Zimmers) William J. Hurlbut |
| Starring |
Lionel Atwill Gloria Stuart Paul Lukas |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 66 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Secret of the Blue Room is a 1933 American Pre-Code murder-mystery film starring Lionel Atwill, Gloria Stuart, Paul Lukas and Edward Arnold.
The plot is based on the German film Geheimnis des Blauen Zimmers, made the previous year. Universal remade it twice: as The Missing Guest in 1938 and as Murder in the Blue Room in 1944; the latter is played mostly as a comedy with songs, though is still faithful to the original plot.
Plot
A woman's suitor challenges his two rivals to each spend a night in a room in which several murders occurred years before at 1 a.m. The suitor, Tommy, sleeps there on the first night but disappears at 1 a.m. Then the second man sleeps there on the second night, at 12:30 a.m, he starts playing the piano, however, he is shot half an hour later.
As these events occur, a police investigation leads to several answers to several mysteries. On the fifth night, the third man sleeps in the Blue Room, however, he places a dummy in an armchair and conceals himself behind a coat. At 1 a.m, a revolver pokes round the door and fires at the dummy. The man jumps out from behind the coat, and several police officers do likewise, revealing themselves from different positions. After a furious gunfight, the villain is apprehended and it turns out to be none other than Tommy, the first suitor.
Cast
- Lionel Atwill as Robert von Helldorf
- Gloria Stuart as Irene von Helldorf
- Paul Lukas as Captain Walter Brink
- Edward Arnold as Commissioner Forster
- Onslow Stevens as Frank Faber
- William Janney as Thomas Brandt
- Robert Barrat as Paul
- Muriel Kirkland as Betty
- Russell Hopton as Max
- Elizabeth Patterson as Mary
External links
- Secret of the Blue Room at the Internet Movie Database
- Secret of the Blue Room at the TCM Movie Database
- Secret of the Blue Room at AllMovie