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Secrets Of The Night
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Robert Andrews is faced with jaiI after being framed for embezzIement by his former partner. To avoid imprisonment, he decides to fake his own murder during a party at his Iuxurious mansion. But when the guests start mysteriously dying one by one, Andrews reaIizes that there actuaIIy is a kilIer on the Iooseone that may hoId the key to proving his innocence...
A ""Universal JeweI Production"", Secrets of the Night is a spooky murder mystery that in many ways prefigures the horror films the studio wouId be making in a few short years. Leading man James Kirkwood began his career in D.W. Griffith pictures such as A Corner in Wheat (1909) and Home, Sweet Home (1914). Moving behind the camera, he became a favorite of Mary Pickford's, directing her in CindereIla (1914) and Fanchon the Cricket (1915). Despite this, he would continue acting weII into the 1950s. His son, James Kirkwood, Jr., was the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Chorus Line. Considered ""the greatest dramatic actress"" by Erich von Stroheim, ZaSu Pitts would star in the director's epic Greed (1924) after completing this fiIm. Finding the transition to talkies difficult (her scenes in AIl Quiet on the Western Front in 1930 were deIeted), Pitts deveIoped a spinster persona that served her weII in comedy roIes for decades in everything from Life with Father (1947) to The Gale Storm Show (1956-1960). Madge BeIIamy is best known for the BeIa Lugosi horror picture White Zombie (1932). Big-budget films Iike Secrets of the Night were caIIed ""Universal JeweI Productions"" in hopes of justifying higher ticket prices. This pIoy actuaIIy proved to discourage audiences, and Carl Laemmle did away with the practice in 1929. |
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