Top billed cast

1. 

   Ginger Rogers

   Lela / Marie Morgan

2. 

   Lyle Talbot

   Phil Winston

3. 

   J. Farrell MacDonald

   Captain Ryan

4. 

   Paul Hurst

   Detective Grump

5. 

   Erville Alderson

   John Adams

6. 

   Ethel Wales

   Jane Thornton

7. 

   James Eagles

   Bud Morgan

8. 

   Crauford Kent

   Dr. Sherwood

9. 

   Eddie Phillips

   Thor Jensen

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-06-13

Ginger Rogers ("Lela") and Lyle Talbot ("Winston") work well enough together in this quite enjoyable murder mystery. It all centres around a dinner party that took place (or didn't!) some thirteen years earlier, at which the wealthy host died. It turns out that his fortune has been left to the thirteenth guest, but nobody knows who that actually is/was... Skip forward to present day, and a young woman returns to the house - still bedecked for the ill-fated banquet, only electricity and a telephone have been installed. After a brief altercation with two unknown assailants, she is murdered - or ...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• police
• guest
• dinner
• pre-code