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The House of Secrets (1929 film)
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Wikipedia article
'The House of Secrets' is a 1929 American mystery film directed by Edmund Lawrence and starring Joseph Striker, Marcia Manning and Elmer Grandin.Pitts p.87 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.
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."
References
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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