Curtain at Eight

Curtain at Eight

68 mins | Mystery | Oct. 1, 1933

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?

Curtain at Eight

68 mins | Mystery | Oct. 1, 1933

Curtain at Eight
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?
IMDb rating 5.5
Producers Larry Darmour Productions
Original title Curtain at Eight
Directors E. Mason Hopper
Writers Edward T. Lowe Jr.

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

Matthew Betz

as "Lovely" Holmes

Walter Brennan

as Backstage Detective [extra]