An ordinary man is confronted by gangsters who have reason to believe a treasure is buried somewhere on his property.
Acting
Louise Closser Hale steals every scene as the disapproving aunt.
Production
Gothic manor sets that scream 'someone definitely died here in 1897.'
Director
Hobart Henley
Mary Brian
Poppy Faire
John Halliday
Ambrose Applejohn
Kay Strozzi
Madame Anna Valeska, aka Gladys
Alec B. Francis
Lush, the Butler
Louise Closser Hale
Aunt Agatha
Claud Allister
John Jason
Julia Swayne Gordon
Mrs. Kate Pengard
Arthur Edmund Carewe
Ivan Borolsky, aka Jim
Otto Hoffman
Horace Pengard
William B. Davidson
Bill Dennett
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pre-code films like this slipped through before the 1934 Production Code crackdown, allowing morally ambiguous heroines and casual criminality that vanished for decades.
Based on a 1921 stage hit that ran over 450 performances—Hollywood was absolutely looting Broadway for quickie talkie adaptations in 1931.
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