Curtain at Eight

Oct 1, 1933

1h 8m

★ 5.8

Overview

An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? A suicided actress's sister? The temperamental prop man? Or maybe the show's talented female chimpanzee?

Genres

Mystery

Production Companies

Larry Darmour Productions

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Cast

Detective Jim Hanley

C. Aubrey Smith

Capt. Martin Gallagher

Sam Hardy

Reporter Mooney

Russell Hopton

Doris Manning

Ruthelma Stevens

J.K. Manning

Hale Hamilton

Carey Weldon

Jack Mulhall

Lola Cresmer

Dorothy Mackaill

Mac MacIntosh, the prop man

Syd Saylor

Wylie Thornton

Paul Cavanagh

Alma Jenkins Thornton

Natalie Moorhead

Anice Cresmer

Marion Shilling

Allison, addled actor

William Humphrey

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