Curtain at Eight (1933)
An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? A suicided actress's sister? The temperamental prop man? Or maybe the show's talented female chimpanzee?
- Date of release
- 1933-10-01
- TMDB
- 6.4 / 10 (8)
- Runtime
- 1h 8m
- Genres
- Mystery
- Director
- E. Mason Hopper
Casting
- C. Aubrey Smith — Detective Jim Hanley
- Sam Hardy — Capt. Martin Gallagher
- Russell Hopton — Reporter Mooney
- Ruthelma Stevens — Doris Manning
- Hale Hamilton — J.K. Manning
- Jack Mulhall — Carey Weldon
- Dorothy Mackaill — Lola Cresmer
- Syd Saylor — Mac MacIntosh, the prop man
- Paul Cavanagh — Wylie Thornton
- Natalie Moorhead — Alma Jenkins Thornton
- Marion Shilling — Anice Cresmer
- William Humphrey — Allison, addled actor
Interesting facts
Curtain at Eight is a 1933 American pre-Code mystery film directed by E. Mason Hopper and starring C. Aubrey Smith, Dorothy Mackaill and Paul Cavanagh.
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