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Director
  
Noel M. Smith

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

5.2/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Adventure, Crime, Mystery

Language
  
English

Mystery House (1938 film) movie poster

Writer
  
Sherman L. Lowe
,
Robertson White
,
Mignon G. Eberhart

Release date
  
May 21, 1938 (1938-05-21)

Genres
  
Mystery, Adventure Film, Crime Fiction

Distributor
  
Warner Bros. Entertainment, First National

Cast
  
Dick Purcell
(Lance O'Leary),
Ann Sheridan
(Nurse Sarah Keate),
Anne Nagel
(Gwen Kingery),
William Hopper
(Lal Killian),
Anthony Averill
(Julian Barre),
Dennie Moore
(Annette)

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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Tagline
  
A piece of wire...a toupee...a rifled safe..3 CLUES! 3 MURDERS! 3 TIMES The Thrills of Any Other Mystery Hit!

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.

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Plot

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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

  • Dick Purcell as Lance O'Leary
  • Ann Sheridan as Nurse Sarah Keate
  • Anne Nagel as Gwen Kingery
  • William Hopper as Lal Killian
  • Anthony Averill as Julian Barre
  • Dennie Moore as Annette the Maid
  • Hugh O'Connell as Newell Morse
  • Ben Welden as Gerald Frawley
  • Sheila Bromley as Terice Von Elm
  • Elspeth Dudgeon as Aunt Lucy Kingery
  • Anderson Lawler as Joe Page
  • Jean Benedict as Helen Page
  • Trevor Bardette as Bruker the Chauffeur
  • Eric Stanley as Hubert Kingery

    • 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.

    References

    Mystery House (1938 film) Wikipedia
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