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The Phantom of Crestwood is a american film of genre Drama directed by J. Walter Ruben released in USA on 14 october 1932 with Ricardo Cortez

The Phantom of Crestwood (1932)

The Phantom of Crestwood
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Released in USA 14 october 1932
Length 1h16
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Crime
Rating63% 3.1948353.1948353.1948353.1948353.194835

The Phantom of Crestwood is a 1932 American Pre-Code murder mystery film released by RKO Radio Pictures, directed by J. Walter Ruben, and starring Ricardo Cortez, Karen Morley, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, Anita Louise, H. B. Warner, and Pauline Frederick. Morley plays Jenny Wren, who plans to extort money from various wealthy ex-lovers, after she lures them to an estate called Crestwood.

The film was based on a radio serial, which was heard on NBC Radio's Hollywood on the Air for six weeks (Fridays at 10:30 P.M. Eastern Time) from August 26 through September 30, 1932, and a contest was held where listeners sent in suggestions for the film's ending. The film features what Leonard Maltin referred to as an "eye-popping" flashback technique.

According to RKO records the film made a profit of $100,000.

Synopsis

Ricardo Cortez as Gary Curtis (alias Farnsbarns who is known for being a PI that skirts the law in New York) is sent to get some letters from Karen Morley as Jenny Wren (who is a courtisan). Jenny Wren tells H. B. Warner as Priam Andes to have some of her former lovers come to a gathering at Crestwood. Jenny Wren at the gathering tells her former lovers that she is leaving but wants money from all of them, she explains that a boy she was trifling with committed suicide. Later that night Jenny Wren is killed. A road washed out keeps everyone at Crestwood. Now Gary Curtis must find out who the murder is before the police arrive and pin it on him.

Actors

Ricardo Cortez

(Gary Curtis)Karen Morley

(Jenny Wren)Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher

(Eddie Mack)Anita Louise

(Esther Wren)Bess Flowers

(Priam's Secretary (uncredited))
And :
H. B. Warner
Pauline Frederick
Mary Duncan
Sam Hardy
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