Curtain at Eight (1933)

Name: Curtain at Eight
Genre: Mystery
Released: 1933-10-01
Duration: 68 min
Cast: C. Aubrey Smith, Sam Hardy, Russell Hopton, Ruthelma Stevens, Hale Hamilton

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?

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Released 1933-10-01 · 68 min · Mystery

Directed by E. Mason Hopper

Cast

C. Aubrey Smith as Detective Jim Hanley
Sam Hardy as Capt. Martin Gallagher
Russell Hopton as Reporter Mooney
Ruthelma Stevens as Doris Manning
Hale Hamilton as J.K. Manning
Jack Mulhall as Carey Weldon
Dorothy Mackaill as Lola Cresmer
Syd Saylor as Mac MacIntosh, the prop man
Paul Cavanagh as Wylie Thornton
Natalie Moorhead as Alma Jenkins Thornton
Marion Shilling as Anice Cresmer
William Humphrey as Allison, addled actor
Herman Bing as Sam, stage director
Dot Farley as Ella, hefty actress
Arthur Hoyt as Watkins, theater watchman