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Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935 film)

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Music director
  
Alberto Colombo

Country
  
United States

6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy, Mystery, Romance

Duration
  

Language
  
English

Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935 film) movie poster
Director
  
William Hamilton Edward Killy Charles Kerr (assistant)

Release date
  
1935 (1935)

Based on
  
play by George M. Cohan based on the novel by Earl Derr Biggers

Writer
  
Earl Derr Biggers (novel), George M. Cohan (play), Anthony Veiller, Wallace Smith

Directors
  
Edward Killy, William Hamilton

Screenplay
  
Glenn Tryon, Anthony Veiller, Dorothy Yost, Wallace Smith

Cast
  
Gene Raymond
(William Magee),
Margaret Callahan
(Mary Norton),
Eric Blore
(Prof. Harrison Boulton),
Grant Mitchell
(Thomas Hayden),
Moroni Olsen
(Mayor Jim Cargen),
Erin O'Brien-Moore
(Myra Thornhill)

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An author goes to a secluded inn for a night of uninterrupted writing and is vexed by a host of intruders.

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Seven Keys to Baldpate is a 1935 movie based on the popular play.

A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things he gets, as there are some very strange goings-on at the establishment.

Cast

  • Gene Raymond as Magee
  • Margaret Callahan as Mary Norton, alias of Mary Johnson
  • Eric Blore as Professor Bolton, alias of Harrison
  • Grant Mitchell as Hayden
  • Moroni Olsen as Jim Cargan
  • Erin OBrien-Moore as Mrs. Hayden, alias of Myra
  • Henry Travers as Adlebert Peters
  • Walter Brennan as Station agent
  • Ray Mayer as Bland
  • Erville Alderson as Chief of police
  • Murray Alper as Max
  • Harry Beresford as Lige Quimby

    • Similar Movies

    Gene Raymond and others appear in Seven Keys to Baldpate and Smartest Girl in Town. The Ex-Mrs Bradford (1936). The Late George Apley (1947). All in a Nights Work (1961). Breakfast for Two (1937).

    Reception

    The critic from the Washington Post said he could think of no two actors less alike than Gene Raymond and Richard Dix apart from George Arliss and Harpo Marx, and said the film was a "sturdy old warhorse".

    References

    Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935 film) Wikipedia
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    Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935 film) IMDb Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935 film) themoviedb.org