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The Ninth Guest (1934) - the "inspiration" for Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians"
An anonymous caller invites a number of guests to a party, telling each one that the party is in his honor. The guests include Dr. Murray Reid (Samuel S. Hinds), a university professor, Henry Abbott (Hardie Albright), a campus radical, Jason Osgood (Edwin Maxwell), the city's mob boss, Sylvia Inglesby (Helen Flint), an attorney, Tim Cronin (Edward Ellis), Sylvia's district attorney, Margaret Chisholm (Nella Walker), a society matron, Jim Daley (Donald Cook), an author, and Jean Trent (Genevieve Tobin), Henry's love interest.
When the guests begin to arrive, they find that each is an enemy of another guest. As they have been instructed by the host, the Butler, Hawkins (Sidney Bracey), and his assistant turn on the radio and a voice announces that the guests have been gathered for a game of wit in which "Death" will be the "ninth guest."
Later, the guests discover a dead body in a closet, and at eleven o'clock, Osgood dies trying to poison the others. Then, Jean tells the others that Margaret received a letter revealing that she is a bigamist and had committed her husband to an asylum. Distraught at having been found out, Margaret kills herself at midnight.
Soon, the remaining guests are bickering among themselves, and when they find a gun on Timothy, Sylvia, attempting to defend him, kills him. Sylvia then commits suicide by throwing herself against the electric gate.
At two o'clock, the lights go out, and Dr. Reid is shot and Henry is wounded. As James ties Henry up, sure that he is the killer, he explains that the first body was that of the electrician who wired the apartment for Henry, and that the radio voice was activated by a button located on Henry's chair. Finally, Henry admits his crimes and explains that Margaret's husband was his brother, and that Sylvia was Margaret's attorney and Timothy was a corrupt district attorney. Aware that his love for Jean is hopeless, Henry lets her and James leave, then electrocutes himself.
A 1934 American Black & White pre-Code murder mystery horror film (a/k/a "The 9th Guest") directed by Roy William Neill, screenplay by Garnet Weston, based on Owen Davis' Broadway play "The Ninth Guest" (1930), cinematography by Benjamin H. Kline, starring Donald Cook, Genevieve Tobin, Hardie Albright, Edward Ellis, Edwin Maxwell, Helen Flint, Samuel Hinds, Nella Walker, Vince Barnett, and Sidney Bracey. Released by Columbia Pictures.
The film's source material, "The Invisible Host" (1930), was a novel by the husband and wife team of Gwen Bristow and Bruce Manning. Their whodunit was inspired by a neighbor whose raucous radio disturbed them day and night. The novel begins: "That makes thirty-seven words, said the girl. Will you read the telegram again? came the voice over the wire. She read: Congratulations stop plans afoot for small surprise party in your honor Bienville penthouse next Saturday eight o'clock stop all sub rose big surprise stop maintain secrecy stop promise you most original party ever staged in New Orleans Signed Your host." The stage production, "The Ninth Guest" (1930), was written by Owen Davis. The Broadway play opened at the Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre in New York on August 25, 1930, and ran for 72 performances. The opening night cast included Berton Churchill, William Courtleigh, Alan Dinehart Grace Kern, Frank Shannon, and Robert Vivian. The book, play and film all predate Agatha Christie's extremely successful novel "And Then There Were None" (1939), which has a similar plot.
Though this mystery thriller runs just over an hour, nearly every element of the film's plot was replicated in Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians," including two servants engaged by an agency who follow the written instructions of their absent employer; an unseen host promising death to guests for their past misdeeds through an airwave device; a coward who offers to collude with the murderer in return for his life being spared; an isolated setting that disallows the guests from leaving; each death being executed in order of "unworthiness to live" through a missive of some kind; a thorough search of the premises that leads the characters to conclude that the killer is actually one of them; a total of ten characters of disparate ages, of which seven are male and three female; each surviving character divulging his or her guilty secret as the body count mounts; an uneasy romance between two of the characters who suspect each other despite their growing attraction; a male character managing the tension by drinking to excess, which seals his fate; a remainder of four characters, three male and one female; a sudden loss of electricity that prompts a shot in the dark, revealed to be a death once the lights go on; the two would-be lovers unraveling the solution to the mystery before they can be killed.
A refreshingly unpretentious, intriguing, classic studio horror film from the golden age of horror films. Grand Guignol fun with a stylish Art-Deco apartment, and a twist ending.
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Komentáře

  • @ripghyll2050
    @ripghyll2050 Před 3 hodinami

    How the germans saw anything through those dirty binoculars beats me !!

  • @observer3232
    @observer3232 Před 4 hodinami

    I'm a big fan of film noir, never seen this till today and it is terrific! Fred MacMurray, who may have been cinemas all time heel from such films as "The Caine Mutiny" and "The Apartment" is back at it in a role quite similar to "Double Indemnity" as Fred is once again led astray by a sexy woman to engage in crime. This time the femme fatale is Kim Novak, who looks absolutely gorgeous in her film introduction as Fred becomes her "Pushover" Great script by Roy Huggins, who also created "Maverick" and "Rockford Files." Plenty of cigarettes and big cars!

  • @canalesworks1247
    @canalesworks1247 Před 5 hodinami

    Claire Trevor is always fantastic in this genre.

  • @piotrkap5536
    @piotrkap5536 Před 5 hodinami

    Oszukiwali Adolfa .A on chciał tylko pokonać komunistòw . 5 lat wojny .50 lat komunizmu w Europie .Rachunek się nie zgadza.🤷🤷🤷

  • @crochet99
    @crochet99 Před 5 hodinami

    I loved this movie

  • @coobay4786
    @coobay4786 Před 6 hodinami

    Looks familiar.

  • @TomTom-hj3nq
    @TomTom-hj3nq Před 7 hodinami

    What a wonderful innocent movie about politics...how it should be in times when it clearly isn't...people look deep into your hearts..and let your silent simple and true heart guide you....simple friendly goodness...and don't worry the outcome...from Munich Germany

  • @TheMadAfrican1
    @TheMadAfrican1 Před 8 hodinami

    Fairly entertaining, if implausible and slightly too unbelievable, B movie. Goes to show how far a good premise can carry a film. The characterisation is way too thin for a film like this to entirely work.

  • @richarda996
    @richarda996 Před 11 hodinami

    Refreshing to watch a movie and enjoy it. No cussing, just folks going through life. This is what entertainment used to be.

  • @Paolo_Pinkas
    @Paolo_Pinkas Před 13 hodinami

    One of the most ridiculous movies I've ever seen. Hopkins in his worst role. For a German, the movie is a disgrace and incredibly amusing at the same time.

  • @xxxx2935
    @xxxx2935 Před 14 hodinami

    Louisiana !

  • @xxxx2935
    @xxxx2935 Před 15 hodinami

    . Inquisition : Redneck, Beastman ; confirmation 100% ! Thank you ! Indeed !

  • @xxxx2935
    @xxxx2935 Před 15 hodinami

    Inquisition ; Nice : Louisiana, Redneck Beastman ! Indeed 100%, thanks, for, Confirmation.

  • @mariadejesusgarciajimene-ok1sz

    45

  • @brain8484
    @brain8484 Před 17 hodinami

    one thing wrong with this film is that Kenneth More is in it.

  • @boga5014
    @boga5014 Před 18 hodinami

    It's so '' Hollywood '' it made me vomit....Incredible cast made it bearable at best ... Loretta Young's fake swedish was bad....A much better Loretta Young movie is The Bishop's Wife.

  • @jonesywails8382
    @jonesywails8382 Před 19 hodinami

    This movie was huge letdown. A real waste of Edward G. We still put Americans in prison on bogus charges but now we invite undesirable criminals into our country.

    • @2nostromo
      @2nostromo Před 11 hodinami

      Easy there big guy. Maybe you should take a pill.

    • @nickcharles1284
      @nickcharles1284 Před 7 hodinami

      Now? Ten years before this movie was made the government brought Nazis war criminals to the US and put them to work in the science industries.

  • @glenrobinson916
    @glenrobinson916 Před 20 hodinami

    What a great story!!!

  • @missrosecomfort
    @missrosecomfort Před 20 hodinami

    aldous huxley was some kind of a weird guy!

  • @mjemigh3304
    @mjemigh3304 Před 21 hodinou

    Thanks for posting this. The Joe Kane films are clearly different from the Billy Whitney films and I love both of them. I hope you have a chance to put more Roy movies up, despite the fact that they aren’t getting a lot of views right now. Have faith!

  • @BrianHayter-zl2uc
    @BrianHayter-zl2uc Před 22 hodinami

    That,s the worse Hitler I've ever seen, really bad. 👎👎👎

  • @marycahill546
    @marycahill546 Před 23 hodinami

    Excellent film. Thank you for posting.

  • @karinteves1412
    @karinteves1412 Před 23 hodinami

    Trouble, the dog should have gotten an academy award for his role.

  • @timjones1583
    @timjones1583 Před dnem

    No lawyer? No way No lawyer.

  • @xhetoomni8134
    @xhetoomni8134 Před dnem

    Would it be fun to use the Stewie family guy time machine to gain access to the Bismark and ride the ship down the greased ship slide to the water with a couple of non white Germans to the water and hand out pamphlets that tells the time of the demise of the Bismark and the rest of the German war effort. 0:50 -1:24 1:28:00- 1:32:07 FG czcams.com/video/CII_Q2aXa-k/video.html czcams.com/video/A6ILhWTFH4U/video.html

  • @badiulalam7791
    @badiulalam7791 Před dnem

    সুহৃদ | " Two Moom Junction " ও " Perfect Girl দারুন চমৎকার ছবি | এমন কিছু ছবি ( Video) Post করুন | ধন্যবাদ |

  • @willieluncheonette5843

    Phil Karlson was a terrific noir director. He lived that life as a kid in Chicago

  • @rick5793
    @rick5793 Před dnem

    Why do they always have to be blonde??

  • @rick5793
    @rick5793 Před dnem

    Ya know if there was enough oxygen to burn wood there's enough to breathe.

  • @georgezayer2934
    @georgezayer2934 Před dnem

    One of the best crime/ drama movie...Good song for the dancing scene ...Character actor John Larch as the detective talking to the first witness before he was shot by the sniper...

  • @jacqueline8559
    @jacqueline8559 Před dnem

    Excellent film. The writing is brilliant. As is the Acting by Anne Sheridan and Gary Cooper ( especially Sheridan)

  • @astoldbyai-bg6el
    @astoldbyai-bg6el Před dnem

    When I saw this I immediatly thought this was made by AI until I saw the runtime and thought no way lol.. Looking forward to watching this sometime :)

  • @joeminella5315
    @joeminella5315 Před dnem

    Thanks for the history lesson about Monogram/Republic/ AlliedArtists. 👍👍👍

  • @thomassnider6691
    @thomassnider6691 Před dnem

    Sir Cedric Hardwicke gave a great performance. I'm glad there was no miscarriage of justice, because the entire case was built on only circumstantial evidence, the flimsiest evidence there is.

  • @rajmohantn9650
    @rajmohantn9650 Před dnem

    Wow great movie

  • @koolbugz
    @koolbugz Před dnem

    this is more believable than the other movie i saw with neil armstrong and buzz aldrien. better actors too

  • @robertsweeney7472
    @robertsweeney7472 Před dnem

    Love Ms Ginger Rogers! Some great one liners! A real pro❤️

  • @holyspacemonkey
    @holyspacemonkey Před dnem

    Love the montages at 45:44 and 52:19!

  • @tarstarkusz
    @tarstarkusz Před dnem

    Now Hungry is blessed with a wise leader like Viktor Orban whose leadership and his country are a light to the free world.

  • @MartyDugas
    @MartyDugas Před dnem

    I thought I’ve seen every movie with Henry Fonda and Maureen O Hara. What a great find and I really enjoyed it

  • @nonenoneonenonenone

    They called it Santa Rosa in the movie, though that city is not on the coast, not Laguna Beach.

  • @romans325kjb
    @romans325kjb Před dnem

    Classic, sad one but classic. (80 years ago today, D-Day. June 6th, 2024). Thank God for that generation.

  • @nonenoneonenonenone

    Rosalind Russell's voice is remarkably similar to Gypsy's, she was the perfect choice to portray her.

  • @WeRNthisToGetHer
    @WeRNthisToGetHer Před dnem

    Anthony played that so well. It's almost creepy. It's almost as if he conjured up his spirit.

  • @RetiredSchoolCook
    @RetiredSchoolCook Před dnem

    🤠🐴Thank you 🐴🤠 Good western movie 🥰👍

  • @ritamatthews2942
    @ritamatthews2942 Před 2 dny

    I love this movie. It's a shame all they make now is trash

  • @majorwhite51
    @majorwhite51 Před 2 dny

    Really enjoyed that, no blood, no guts and a happy ending, 😊

  • @leonasimmons7236
    @leonasimmons7236 Před 2 dny

    Love the old movie ❤

  • @fergaoneill5323
    @fergaoneill5323 Před 2 dny

    Class film

  • @user-jh9yt7dh2p
    @user-jh9yt7dh2p Před 2 dny

    👍