Secret of the Blue Room
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Director Kurt Neumann Producer Carl Laemmle, Jr. Duration Language English | 6.6/10 IMDb Genre Drama, Horror, Mystery Production Universal Studios Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date July 20, 1933 (1933-07-20) Writer William Hurlbut, Erich Philippi (original script Geheimnis des Blauen Zimmers) Cast Lionel Atwill (Robert von Helldorf), Gloria Stuart (Irene von Helldorf), Paul Lukas (Captain Walter Brink), Edward Arnold (Commissioner Forster), Onslow Stevens (Frank Faber), William Janney (Thomas Brandt)Similar movies Framed , Will Your Heart Beat Faster? , Stuff Stephanie in the Incinerator Tagline Shocks! Shivers! Sensation! Surprises! Creeping shadows, clutching hands, a blue death-chamber and a houseful of bewildered men defying the supernatural for the sake of a beautiful girl!... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Secret of the Blue Room is a 1933 American pre-Code murder-mystery film directed by Kurt Neumann and starring Lionel Atwill, Gloria Stuart, Paul Lukas and Edward Arnold.
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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 still largely 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, but 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 and several police officers jump out of their hiding places. After a furious gunfight, the villain is apprehended and it turns out to be none other than Tommy, the first suitor, who had ostensibly disappeared.
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References
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