A 1934 French whodunit where the butler DEFINITELY didn't do it. Or did he?
A Scotland investigation into the sinister Lamberton family castle, where a servant was mysteriously killed and then a doctor strangled a few nights later. The servants are wrongly suspected and the truth provokes the suicide of the real culprit.
Production
Creaky castle sets that scream 1930s murder mystery aesthetic.
Direction
Forrester builds suspicion like a game of hot potato with poison.
Director
Jack Forrester
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jack Forrester was a pseudonym for German director G.W. Pabst's assistant, making this a rare French-language mystery from a mostly forgotten émigré.
This 1934 release channels the popular 'roman policier' craze while prefiguring the closed-circle mysteries that would dominate postwar French cinema.
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