At the Villa Rose (1930 film)
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Genre Crime, Mystery Screenplay Cyril Twyford Country United Kingdom | Music director John D. H. Greenwood Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date 30 May 1930 (1930-05-30) (U.S.) Writer A.E.W. Mason (novel), Cyril Twyford Initial release April 28, 1930 (United Kingdom) Cast (Hanaud), (Celia Harland), (Mrs Starling), (Weathermill), John F Hamilton (Starling)Similar movies The Sleeping Cardinal (1931), The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935), The Time of His Life (1955), The Four Feathers (1929), Fire Over England (1937) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
At the Villa Rose is a 1930 British mystery film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Norah Baring, Richard Cooper and Austin Trevor. It marked the screen debut of Northern Irish actor Trevor. It was released in the United States under the alternative title of Mystery at the Villa Rose.
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Production
The film is based on the 1910 novel At the Villa Rose by A.E.W. Mason and features his fictional detective Inspector Hanuad. It was made at Twickenham Film Studios in St Margarets, Middlesex. A French-language version The Mystery of the Villa Rose was made simultaneously at Twickenham and the production was announced as being the first bilingual film made in Britain.
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Critical reception
The New York Times wrote, ""Mystery at the Villa Rose," a British audible film of A. E. W. Mason's novel, "At the Villa Rose," which is now at the Cameo, is baffling in more ways than one, for the vocal reproduction often is so "tubby" that it is not always possible to understand what the players are saying. The original story possessed possibilities for quite a good picture, but this screen effort has been handled so amateurishly that one really does not care who poisoned Madame D'Auvray."