Under Suspicion (1937 film)

Last updated
Under Suspicion
Under Suspicion (1937 film).jpg
Directed by Lewis D. Collins
Written by
Produced by Larry Darmour
Starring
Cinematography James S. Brown Jr.
Edited by Dwight Caldwell
Music by Lee Zahler
Production
company
Larry Darmour Productions
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date
November 22, 1937
Running time
61 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Under Suspicion is a 1937 American mystery film directed by Lewis D. Collins and starring Jack Holt, Katherine DeMille and Luis Alberni. [1]

Contents

Synopsis

Millionaire automobile manufacturer Robert Bailey announces that he plans to turn over ownership of his company to the employees. This outrages his fellow stockholders and two attempts are made to kill him. Bailey summons them all to his lodge in order to try and work out which is the potential murderer.

Cast

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jack Holt (actor)</span> American actor (1888–1951)

Charles John Holt, Jr. was an American motion picture actor who was prominent in both silent and sound movies, particularly Westerns.

<i>Twice Upon a Time</i> (1953 film) 1953 film by Emeric Pressburger

Twice Upon a Time is a 1953 British comedy film directed by Emeric Pressburger and starring Hugh Williams, Elizabeth Allan, Yolande Larthe, and Charmian Larthe. It is based on the 1949 novel Lisa and Lottie by Erich Kästner.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Katherine DeMille</span> American actress (1911–1995)

Katherine Lester DeMille was a Canadian-born American actress who played 25 credited film roles from the mid-1930s to the late 1940s.

<i>Joan the Woman</i> 1916 film

Joan the Woman is a 1916 American epic silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Geraldine Farrar as Joan of Arc. The film premiered on Christmas Day in 1916. This was DeMille's first historical drama. The screenplay is based on Friedrich Schiller's 1801 play Die Jungfrau von Orleans. This film was considered to be the "first cinematic spectacle about Joan of Arc."

<i>The Squaw Man</i> (1918 film) 1918 film

The Squaw Man is a 1918 American silent Western film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It is a remake of DeMille's 1914 film of the same name, which is based upon a 1905 play by Edwin Milton Royle. The film was reportedly made as an experiment to prove DeMille's theory that a good film is based on a good story. It cost $40,000 to make and grossed $350,000. It would be remade again by DeMille in 1931. The 1918 The Squaw Man is a lost film with only the last reel extant.

<i>Blockade</i> (1938 film) 1938 film by William Dieterle

Blockade is a 1938 American drama film directed by William Dieterle and starring Madeleine Carroll, Henry Fonda, and Leo Carrillo.

<i>Mexican Spitfires Elephant</i> 1942 film by Leslie Goodwins

Mexican Spitfire's Elephant is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins and written by Charles E. Roberts. It is the sequel to the 1942 film Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost. The film stars Lupe Vélez, Leon Errol, Walter Reed, Elisabeth Risdon, Lydia Bilbrook, Marion Martin, Lyle Talbot and Luis Alberni. The film was released on September 11, 1942, by RKO Pictures.

<i>Sunset Pass</i> (1929 film) 1929 film

Sunset Pass is a lost 1929 American silent Western film directed by Otto Brower. It stars Jack Holt, Nora Lane, and John Loder.

<i>The Santa Fe Trail</i> (1930 film) 1930 film

The Santa Fe Trail is a 1930 American pre-Code Western film, directed by Otto Brower and Edwin H. Knopf, released by Paramount Pictures, and starring Richard Arlen, Rosita Moreno, and Eugene Pallette. The film was an adaptation of Hal George Evarts's 1925 novel, Spanish Acres.

End of the Trail is a 1936 American Western film directed by Erle C. Kenton and starring Jack Holt, Louise Henry and Douglass Dumbrille.

<i>The Cheerful Fraud</i> 1927 film by William A. Seiter

The Cheerful Fraud is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Reginald Denny, Gertrude Olmstead, and Otis Harlan. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. It is based on a 1925 novel of the same title by British writer Kenneth Robert Gordon Browne.

<i>Tenth Avenue</i> (film) 1928 film

Tenth Avenue, also known as Hell's Kitchen, is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by William C. deMille and starring Phyllis Haver, Victor Varconi and Joseph Schildkraut.

Subway Express is a 1931 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and starring Jack Holt, Aileen Pringle and Fred Kelsey.

<i>The Best of Luck</i> 1920 film

The Best of Luck is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Ray C. Smallwood and starring Kathryn Adams, Jack Holt and Lila Leslie. It was adapted from a British play which had been a hit in the West End. A young American woman moves to Scotland and purchases an ancestral castle. She is pursued by two suitors, one a British nobleman and the other an underhand Spaniard.

<i>The Mask</i> (1921 film) 1921 film

The Mask is a 1921 American silent mystery film directed by Bertram Bracken and starring Jack Holt, Hedda Nova and Michael D. Moore.

<i>Trapped in the Sky</i> (film) 1939 American film

Trapped in the Sky is a 1939 American thriller film directed by Lewis D. Collins and produced by Larry Darmour for Columbia Pictures. The film stars Jack Holt, Ralph Morgan and Katherine DeMille. Holt is the "flyboy" who is trying to find the saboteurs of a "silent" aircraft. The plot device of a "noiseless" or stealthy aircraft is a familiar theme in aviation films of the period, including The Sky Ranger (1921), The Silent Flier (1926) and Eagle of the Night (1928).

<i>Shadows of Suspicion</i> 1919 film directed by Edwin Carewe

Shadows of Suspicion is a 1919 American silent thriller film directed by Edwin Carewe and starring Harold Lockwood, Naomi Childers, and Helen Lindroth. It is based on the 1915 novel The Yellow Dove by George Fort Gibbs, which was later remade as the 1926 film The Great Deception. Lockwood died in the 1918 flu pandemic while filming was ongoing, and a body double was required to complete the film.

<i>The Little Adventuress</i> (1927 film) 1927 film

The Little Adventuress is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by William C. deMille and starring Vera Reynolds, Phyllis Haver and Victor Varconi. It is based on the play The Dover Road by A.A. Milne. A sound remake Where Sinners Meet was made in 1934.

<i>Poison Pen</i> (play) 1937 play

Poison Pen is a mystery play by the British writer Richard Llewellyn. In a small English village, a series of Poison pen letters cause chaos and suspicion.

<i>The Poverty of Riches</i> 1921 film

The Poverty of Riches is a lost 1921 American silent drama film directed by Reginald Barker and starring Richard Dix, Leatrice Joy and Louise Lovely. It was based on a 1914 short story by Leroy Scott.

References

  1. Goble p.997

Bibliography