The House of Secrets (1929 film)

The House of Secrets
Directed by	Edmund Lawrence
Produced by	George R. Batcheller
Written by	Sydney Horler (novel) ; Adeline Leitzbach (screenplay)
Starring	Joseph Striker ; Marcia Manning ; Elmer Grandin
Cinematography	Irving Browning ; Lester Lang ; George Peters ; George Webber
Edited by	Selma Rosenbloom
Production; company	Chesterfield Pictures
Distributed by	Chesterfield Pictures
Release date	May 26, 1929
Running time	71 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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]

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]

gollark: Hmm, does Tux1 roll?

gollark: APL rolls due to being a shape of constant width.

gollark: Or secrets which you don't want to get out, say.

gollark: "Real" antimemes don't do this because you know about their existence/can perceive them, but just don't want to spread them for whatever reason.

gollark: They would be made anomalously inclined to ignore chains of logic which might lead to "thus antimeme".

References

Pitts p.87
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.

External links

The House of Secrets on IMDb

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[1] Pitts p.87

[Tome341-2] Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era. Midnight Marquee Press. p. 341. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.