Wallace Ford (Jimmy Flavin), Barbara Pepper (Marjorie), Joan Woodbury (Gloria Rohloff), Clara Kimball Young (Mrs Jamison), John Elliott (Jamison), Jack Mulhall (Bill, the friendly guest), Ed Cassidy (Mason, the take-charge guest), Earl Dwire (Morgan, the landlord), Vincent Dennis (Bert, the man-of-all-work), John W. Cowell (Hughes), Ivo Henderson (Harrison), Arthur Loft (Wentworth, the leader), Robert McKenzie (marriage license clerk), and "Silver Wolf" (the dog).
Director: BOB HILL. Screenplay: Al Martin. Photography: Bill Hyer. Film editor: Dan Milner. Art director: Fred Preble. Music director: Abe Meyer. Sound recording: Josh Westmoreland. Production manager: Ed W. Rote. Producer: Sam Katzman.
A Mercury Production. Copyright 15 June 1936 by Puritan Pictures Corporation. Filmed at RKO-Pathé Studios. U.S. release through Puritan: 1 March 1936. 7 reels. 67 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: A diverse-group-of-travelers-stranded-in-a-lonely-inn murder mystery.
COMMENT: Another spin-off from "Seven Keyes to Baldpate" and the like, this entry is rather entertaining, thanks to a first-rate cast including the exotic Joan Woodbury, feisty Barbara Pepper, the charismatic John Elliott and silent star Clara Kimball Young (in a sizable role for once. At one stage, she even delivers a speech in front of a photo of her lovely self in her heyday).
Al Martin's swiftly-moving screenplay neatly balances wisecracks and suspense, while director Bob Hill and his cinematographer Bill Hyer have magnificently risen to the occasion of being let loose in the old RKO-Pathé studios among a horde of standing sets. As Turner and Price comment in their standard textbook, Forgotten Horrors: "Unusual in low-budget production is the mobility of the camera-work, in which fluid dolly and lateral tracking shots enhance many scenes."
Director: BOB HILL. Screenplay: Al Martin. Photography: Bill Hyer. Film editor: Dan Milner. Art director: Fred Preble. Music director: Abe Meyer. Sound recording: Josh Westmoreland. Production manager: Ed W. Rote. Producer: Sam Katzman.
A Mercury Production. Copyright 15 June 1936 by Puritan Pictures Corporation. Filmed at RKO-Pathé Studios. U.S. release through Puritan: 1 March 1936. 7 reels. 67 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: A diverse-group-of-travelers-stranded-in-a-lonely-inn murder mystery.
COMMENT: Another spin-off from "Seven Keyes to Baldpate" and the like, this entry is rather entertaining, thanks to a first-rate cast including the exotic Joan Woodbury, feisty Barbara Pepper, the charismatic John Elliott and silent star Clara Kimball Young (in a sizable role for once. At one stage, she even delivers a speech in front of a photo of her lovely self in her heyday).
Al Martin's swiftly-moving screenplay neatly balances wisecracks and suspense, while director Bob Hill and his cinematographer Bill Hyer have magnificently risen to the occasion of being let loose in the old RKO-Pathé studios among a horde of standing sets. As Turner and Price comment in their standard textbook, Forgotten Horrors: "Unusual in low-budget production is the mobility of the camera-work, in which fluid dolly and lateral tracking shots enhance many scenes."