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The House of Secrets
Also known as O Homem Mistério in Brazil
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6400 feet / 71 minutes
Directed by Edmund Lawrence

Cast: Joseph Striker [Barry Wilding], Marcia Manning [Margery Gordon], Elmer Grandin [Doctor Gordon], Herbert Warren [Detective Blake], Francis M. Verdi [Sir Herbert Harcourt], Richard Stevenson [Bill], Harry Southard [Warton], Edward Roseman [Wu Change], Walter Ringham [Home Secretary Forbes]

Chesterfield Motion Picture Corporation production; distributed by Chesterfield Motion Picture Corporation. / Executive producer, George R. Batcheller. Screenplay by Adeline Leitzbach, from the novel The House of Secrets by Sydney Horler. Cinematography by Irving Browning, Lester Lang, George Peters and George Webber. Film editor, Selma Rosenbloom. / Released 26 May 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. RCA Photophone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / Full-sound film.

Drama: Mystery.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Listing updated: 11 March 2023.

References: Bohn-Light p. 109 : Website-IMDb.