![]() ![]() ![]() Thomas challenges Walter and Frank to each spend a night in a mysterious locked blue room in which several murders had occurred years before, each at exactly one hour past midnight. Universal later remade the film as The Missing Guest (1938) and Murder in the Blue Room (1944).Īt her family's rural manor in Germany, Irene von Helldorf celebrates her twenty-first birthday with her father Robert, her suitor Thomas Brandt, and Thomas's two rivals, Walter Brink and Frank Faber. It was released theatrically in July 1933, and was met by mixed reviews from critics, receiving praise for its performances, but criticism for its formulaic plot devices. Three people suggest a wager that each can survive a night in the blue room.įilmed over a six-day period in June 1933, The Secret of the Blue Room was Universal Pictures' least-expensive production that year. A remake of the German film Geheimnis des blauen Zimmers (1932), it concerns a group of wealthy people who stay at a European mansion that features a blue room that is said to be cursed, as everyone who has stayed there has died shortly after. The Secret of the Blue Room is a 1933 American pre-Code mystery horror film directed by Kurt Neumann and starring Lionel Atwill, Gloria Stuart, Paul Lukas, and Edward Arnold. ![]()
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