USA, 1939
66m
35mm film, black and white, 1.37:1
mono (Western Electric Sound System), English
An American horror film directed by George B. Seitz.
Plot Summary
Inspector Marney investigates a murder in Calcutta by staging a seance to which he invites the thirteen suspects.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: George B. Seitz
Copyright MCMXXXVII [1937] in U.S.A. by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents. Controlled by Loew’s Incorporated
Screen Play by: Marion Parsonnet
From the Play by: Bayard Veiller
Photographed by: Charles Clarke
Film Editor: W. Donn Hayes
Musical Score by: David Snell
Recording Director: Douglas Shearer
Art Director: Cedric Gibbons
Cast
Madge Evans (Nell O’Neill)
Lewis Stone (Inspector Marney)
Elissa Landi (Helen Trent)
Thomas Beck (Dick Crosby)
Henry Daniell (John Wales)
Janet Beecher (Lady Crosby)
the distinguished English actress Dame May Whitty (Mme Rosalie La Grange)
Ralph Forbes (Lionel Trent)
Holmes Herbert (Sir Roscoe Crosby)
Heather Thatcher (Mary Eastwood)
Charles Trowbridge (Dr Mason)
Robert Coote (Stanby)
Elsa Buchanan (Miss Stanby)
Lal Chand Mehra (Professor Feringeea)
Neil Fitzgerald (constable)
Louis Vincenot (Chotee)
Alternative Titles
Den 13:e stolen – Sweden
13:s tuoli – Finland
The 13th Chair – alternative title
A Cadeira 13 – Brazil
A Cadeira Nº 13 – Brazil
De dertiende stoel – Netherlands
Misterij Indije – Croatia, Slovenia, Yugoslavia (Croatian), Yugoslavia (Slovenian)
Sudbonosni broj 13 – Yugoslavia (Serbian)
La tredicesima sedia – Italy
La treizième chaise – Belgium (French)
La treizième chaise – France
拾三番目の椅子 – Japan
Links
Remake of
The Thirteenth Chair (1919)
The Thirteenth Chair (1929)
References
Periodicals
- Film Weekly vol.19 no.459 (31 July 1937) p.28
- Monthly Film Bulletin vol.4 no.42 (June 1937) p.135
Books
- Censored Screams: The British Ban on Hollywood Horror in the Thirties by Tom Johnson pp.146, 151, 152; 197 – notes; credits
- Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by Walt Lee p.488
- Sound Films, 1927-1939: A United States Filmography by Alan G. Fetrow p.674-675
