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<i>A Scarlet Week-End</i>

A Scarlet Week-End

1932 film

A Scarlet Week-End is a 1932 American mystery film directed by George Melford and starring Dorothy Revier, Theodore von Eltz and Phyllis Barrington.[1] It was made as a second feature on Poverty Row by the independent producer Willis Kent.[2] It is an adaptation of the 1931 novel The Woman in Purple Pajamas by Wilson Collison.

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Plot

A couple host a weekend party at their country estate. Their guests include two married lovers of the womanizing host. When he begins flirting with another young woman all become jealous of him. The wife's former fiancée begs her leave her husband and come away with him. Later that evening her husband is murdered, and his bloody pyjamas in her bedroom seems to point to her guilt.

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References

  1. [1]
    Fetrow p.573
  2. [2]
    Pitts p.203

Bibliography

  • Fetrow, Alan G. . Sound films, 1927-1939: a United States Filmography. McFarland, 1992.
  • Pitts, Michael R. Poverty Row Studios, 1929–1940: An Illustrated History of 55 Independent Film Companies, with a Filmography for Each. McFarland & Company, 2005.


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