The Thirteenth Guest
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Director Albert Ray Cinematography Harry Neumann Language English | 6/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Mystery, Thriller Duration Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Arthur Hoerl , Frances Hyland , Armitage Trail Release date August 9, 1932 Genres Mystery, Thriller, Black-and-white, Comedy Thriller, Crime Thriller Cast Ginger Rogers (Lela / Marie Morgan), Lyle Talbot (Phil Winston), J. Farrell MacDonald (Police Capt. Ryan), Paul Hurst (Detective Grump)Similar movies Mystery of the 13th Guest (1943) Tagline BAFFLING! BREATHTAKING! CHILLS-THRILLS! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Thirteenth Guest is a 1932 American pre-Code mystery comedy thriller film, released on August 9, 1932. The film is also known as Lady Beware in the United Kingdom. It is based on the 1929 novel by crime fiction writer Armitage Trail best known for writing the novel Scarface, on which the 1932 movie was based. The novel was again brought to the silver in screen in 1943 as Mystery of the 13th Guest.
Plot summary
Marie Morgan (Ginger Rogers) has been lured to an old abandoned house by a false note from a friend, and is in jeopardy although she doesn't yet realize it. As she sits at the table inside, she thinks back to the banquet held there 13 years earlier, when she was a little girl. Only 12 of 13 guests had attended, and the manor's owner, the Morgan family patriarch, who was then dying, has since passed on. The chance to claim the bulk of the estate fortune has resulted in an ongoing campaign of murder by someone targeting the original 12 guests, whose dead bodies are being left at the table in the same seats they had occupied originally.
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