30-day returns. Majestic Pictures, 1933. This precipitates the arrival of the young and quick to jump to conclusions Captain Marty Gallagher, the Captain of Detectives, whose catch phrase is "It's in the bag!". When the lights come back on, Thornton is found dead. An elderly detective (C. Aubrey Smith) sets out to find who murdered a stage actor. He's murdered, and there's no shortage of suspects. Roaming the dressing rooms, Geraldine takes a photograph of Thornton from his room back to her cage. While Gallagher is getting everyone locked up, Handley finds the revolver in a drop hanging from the flies. Add to Cart. Dorothy Mackaill does very well in this movie from the early 1930's. Mack, the property master, does not like that, or her, and mistreats the "monk".
Alma takes his money and then gives Wylie forty dollars while making him owe her seventy five dollars.
Curtain at Eight is a 1933 American pre-Code film directed by E. Mason Hopper. Paul Cavanagh is in the first half of the film, giving a good performance as a stage actor. Please consider disabling your ad blocker.
Wylie Thornton is the star of "Isle of Romance" at the Edwin Booth Theater. After that, there are more than enough suspects including a chimpanzee, who was a very good actor. C. Aubrey Smith, Dorothy Mackaill, Paul Cavanagh, Sam Hardy, Marion Shilling, Russell Hopton, Natalie Moorhead, Hale Hamilton, Ruthelma Stevens.
Format: DVD-R. sku: ALP 5770D. He tells her that he would have done the same thing if that was his sister, meaning that he would have shot Thornton just as she had. Gallagher arrests two good suspects, but it's up to methodical detective Jim Hanvey to solve the case, and when he does, well I won't spoil the surprise. An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a stage actor.
Another is cast member Anice Cresmer, who after hearing of this becomes distraught and kills herself. He is two-timing his wife, Alma Thornton, as well as Lola Cresmer, her sister Anice Cresmer, and Doris Manning, three actresses in the play.
That leads him to question Loveley Holmes about the Thornton's and the gambling debts. Handley then finds the prop master in the room, dead. https://archive.org/details/CurtainAtEightVideoQualityUpgrade Publication date 1933 Usage CC0 1.0 Universal Topics Mystery Publisher Majestic Pictures. Geraldine has figured out how to open and close her wheeled cage, numbered "7", which is in the Property Room of the theater.
CURTAIN AT EIGHT. He gets a birthday cake with thirty four candles; Mack, who was putting in the candles, says "that ham is forty four if he's a day". Add to Wishlist . Thornton has been nice to Geraldine, the chimpanzee, and she has a crush on the handsome man. An entertaining hour of who-done-it - although it starts a bit slowly while setting up the murders. Contact Information www.k-otic.com. He goes in and finds the room in disorder and Geraldine on the loose. Brand New. Handley returns to the theater to find a crowd outside the Property Room. At the center of this whodunit is stage star Wylie Thornton, married but with several lovers. IMDb Rating 5.9 145 votes.
He is two-timing his wife, Alma Thornton, as well as Lola Cresmer, her sister Anice Cresmer, and Doris Manning, three actresses in the play. TMDb Rating 63 votes. $8.99 .
She is one of the few who are in the first half of the film and then in the final scene. My one problem with it is the miscasting of C. Aubrey Smith as the slow-moving hayseed of a detective Jim Hanvey, though fine actor that he was, he managed to pull it off. Upset by Thornton's two-timing, Anice Cresmer, who plays "Tonga" in "Isle of Romance", takes her own life; she is found by her sister Lola.
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158 ratings 5.9/10. Info; Cast; Report; what going on? In the darkness, a shot rings out and is followed by screams like those that a chimpanzee would make. As Handley is leaving the theater, he meets Lola. A nice twist or two, particularly at the end. Curtain At Eight An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a stage actor. The plot is complex for a one-hour mystery, and keeping track of who did what will keep you on your toes. Gallagher arrives and quickly wraps up the case. Wylie Thornton has gambling debts and in a row with his wife, Alma, gets called a "cackling boudoir rooster" and a "flannel mouth Romeo".
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Original title Curtain at Eight. They include a jealous wife, jealous lovers, men who care about those lovers and a chimp. Alma Thornton is found shot in her apartment. Firing a shot, he orders her to get back into her cage, to which she complies. An entertaining second feature.
Screenplay: Edward T. Lowe. One is rich Doris Manning, whom Thornton plans to take with him to New York to costar in his new play. $5.99: $2.50: DVD July 10, 2015 "Please retry" — 1.
Mooney, the newspaper reporter, calls him "'Arrest 'em in a hurry' Gallagher". Plot summary. Mooney tags along with Gallagher and occasionally gives him some tips.
Thank You. 3.1 out of 5 stars 9 ratings. Curtain At Eight C. Aubrey Smith (Actor), Dorothy Mackaill (Actor), E. Mason Hopper (Director) & Rated: NR. Format: DVD. This is an okay quickie with a mostly good cast and an unusual conclusion.
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Wylie Thornton is leaving for a bigger engagement in New York and a farewell party is held for him. Another detective, the older and methodical Jim Handley, labeled by Gallagher as the "new dick from the D.A. Curtain at Eight is a 1933 American pre-Code mystery film directed by E. Mason Hopper and starring C. Aubrey Smith, Dorothy Mackaill and Paul Cavanagh. Worn but watchable print.
In the operating room, Handley is told that in her delirium, Alma has been saying "lovely".
In the Property Room, Geraldine gets her hands on a .32 caliber unrifled revolver and in handling the gun, accidentally fires it.
Thornton blows out the candles.
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