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Mystery House is a american film of genre Adventure directed by Noel M. Smith released in USA on 21 may 1938 with Dick Purcell
Mystery House (1938)
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Add to a movie listMystery House is a 1938 mystery-crime film, directed by Noel M. Smith and starring Dick Purcell and Ann Sheridan as nurse Sarah Keate, and is based on the 1930 novel The Mystery of Hunting's End by Mignon G. Eberhart. Sheridan also played the same character in The Patient in Room 18, released in January 1938, while Aline MacMahon played her in While the Patient Slept in 1935.
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At a hunting lodge retreat, banker Hubert Kingery (Eric Stanely) announces to five fellow officers that one of them has forged documents and embezzled $500,000. Before the evening is over, Kingery is shot dead and the police officially rule it a suicide. Kingery's daughter Gwen (Anne Nagel) doesn't agree and asks for help from her aunt's nurse, Sarah Keate (Ann Sheridan), who suggests her detective boyfriend, Lance O'Leary (Dick Purcell), for the case. O'Leary has all of the suspects return to the lodge and begins his investigation. Stuck in the snowbound shelter, the suspects and victims begin to pile up.Actors
Dick Purcell
(Lance O'Leary)
Ann Sheridan
(Nurse Sarah Keate)
Anne Nagel
(Gwen Kingery)
William Hopper
(Lal Killian)
Dennie Moore
(Annette)
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