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While the Patient Slept is a american film of genre Comedy thriller directed by Ray Enright released in USA on 9 march 1935 with Aline MacMahon

While the Patient Slept (1935)

While the Patient Slept
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Released in USA 9 march 1935
Length 1h6
Directed by
OriginUSA
Rating61% 3.0506153.0506153.0506153.0506153.050615

While the Patient Slept is a 1935 comedy murder mystery film starring Aline MacMahon as a nurse/crime sleuth and Guy Kibbee as her boyfriend and police detective. It is based on the novel of the same name by Mignon G. Eberhart. Nurse Sarah Keate is the protagonist of several Eberhart books; two others were made into films as well: Mystery House and The Patient in Room 18, both released in 1938, though MacMahon was replaced by Ann Sheridan.

Synopsis

Dans le somptueux manoir de la famille Federie, l'infirmière Sarah Keate prête main-forte au lieutenant Lance O'Leary afin de démasquer le meurtrier du patient dont elle avait la charge.

Actors

Aline MacMahon

(Nurse Sarah Keate)Guy Kibbee

(Detective Lt. Lance O'Leary)Lyle Talbot

(Ross Lonergan)Patricia Ellis

(March Federie, Richard's Granddaughter)Robert Barrat

(Adolphe Federie)
And :
Allen Jenkins
Hobart Cavanaugh
Dorothy Tree
Henry O'Neill
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