In a spooky hotel on the coast of France, two bands of crooks are working independently of the other in an attempt to steal the inherited fortune of an American girl, Sue Tally. Along the way the heiress is kidnapped, three murders are committed, a girl appears in two places at once, mysterious persons roam about the old hotel at night and mysteriously disappear, and there is a hidden room without any doors.
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- Status
- Released
- Production
- The Vitaphone Corporation, Warner Bros. Pictures
Keywords
- hotel
- amateur detective
- mistaken identity
- murder
- inheritance
- old dark house
- heiress
- long lost relative
- impersonation
- doppelgänger
- clocks
- concealed identity
- cockatoo
- attempted kidnapping
- hotelier
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Top Cast
Jean Muir as Sue Talley
Ricardo Cortez as Jim Sundean
Ruth Donnelly as Mrs. Byng
Minna Gombell as Grete Lovscheim
Walter Kingsford as Marcus Lovscheim
John Eldredge as Francis Talley
Gordon Westcott as Dr. Roberts
Addison Richards as David Lorn
Top Crew
Alan Crosland · Director
Ben Markson · Screenplay
Lillie Hayward · Screenplay
Mignon G. Eberhart · Novel
Tony Gaudio · Cinematographer
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