The Thirteenth Guest (1932)
BAFFLING! BREATHTAKING! CHILLS-THRILLS!
Thirteen years after a dinner party in which the thirteenth guest failed to arrive, the remaining guests are being murdered one by one, and their bodies being placed at the same dinner table in the appropriate seats they occupied thirteen years prior.
- Date of release
- 1932-08-09
- TMDB
- 5.2 / 10 (21)
- Runtime
- 1h 9m
- Genres
- Mystery, Thriller
- Director
- Albert Ray
Casting
- Ginger Rogers — Lela / Marie Morgan
- Lyle Talbot — Phil Winston
- J. Farrell MacDonald — Captain Ryan
- Paul Hurst — Detective Grump
- Erville Alderson — John Adams
- Ethel Wales — Jane Thornton
- James Eagles — Bud Morgan
- Crauford Kent — Dr. Sherwood
- Eddie Phillips — Thor Jensen
- Frances Rich — Marjorie Thornton
- Phillips Smalley — Dick Thornton
- Robert Klein — John Barksdale (uncredited)
Interesting facts
The Thirteenth Guest is a 1932 American pre-Code mystery comedy thriller film, released on August 9, 1932. The film is also known as Lady Beware in the United Kingdom. It is based on the 1929 novel The Thirteenth Guest written by crime fiction author Armitage Trail, best known for the novel Scarface on which the 1932 movie of the same name was based. The novel was filmed again in 1943 as Mystery of the 13th Guest.
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