The_House_of_Secrets_(1929_film)

<i>The House of Secrets</i> (1929 film)

The House of Secrets (1929 film)

1929 film

The House of Secrets is a 1929 American mystery film directed by Edmund Lawrence and starring Joseph Striker, Marcia Manning and Elmer Grandin.[1] The screenplay was written by Adeline Leitzbach, based on the 1926 novel of the same name by Sydney Horler. The film is considered lost. It was remade in 1936.[2]

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Plot

An American named Barry Wilding travels to England to check out a castle he has inherited there. After hearing of mysterious goings on at the castle, he and his detective friend Joe Blake suspect that a Chinese man named Wu Chang is behind it all.

Cast

  • Joseph Striker as Barry Wilding
  • Marcia Manning as Margery Gordon
  • Elmer Grandin as Dr. Gordon
  • Herbert Warren as Detective Joe Blake
  • Francis M. Verdi as Sir Herbert Harcourt
  • Richard Stevenson as Bill
  • Harry Southard as Warton
  • Edward Roseman as Wu Chang
  • Walter Ringham as Home Secretary Forbes

Commentary

Critic Troy Howarth stated "(The film) is a variation on the formula of a mystery surrounding a lavish inheritance....It was apparently an unremarkable mystery thriller with incidental horror elements."[2]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Pitts p.87
  2. [2]
    Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era. Midnight Marquee Press. p. 341. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.

Bibliography

  • Michael R. Pitts. 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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