Three principal actors from Todd Browning's DRACULA (Lugosi, Manners, and Van Sloan), star in this mystery about an actor who is murdered on the Hollywood back lot of the fictitious Tonart Studios. The killing occurred during the filming of a gangster movie and, while it is first assumed
that real bullets were substituted for blanks, it is later discovered that the fatal shot came from a different caliber gun. Under a cloud of suspicion are studio chief Grossmith (Carr), his manager Steiner (Lugosi), actress Marcia Lane (Ames), director Tom Avery (Van Sloan), and an extra,
Chalmers (Roscoe). Screenwriter Franklyn Drew (Manners), who is in love with Marcia, sets out...
Released:
1933
Rated:
NR
Length:
74 mins