The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1919 film)
| The Mystery of the Yellow Room | |
|---|---|
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| Directed by | Emile Chautard |
| Produced by | Emile Chautard |
| Written by | Emile Chautard |
| Based on |
The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux |
| Starring |
William Walcott Edmund Elton |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Realart Pictures Corporation |
Release dates | October 19, 1919 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Mystery of the Yellow Room is a 1919 American motion picture crime drama made by the Mayflower Photoplay Company and distributed through Realart Pictures Corporation. Emile Chautard was a French actor, director, and producer. Chautard was 55 years old when "The Mystery of the Yellow Room" was released in 1919. The Mystery of the Yellow Room (in French Le mystère de la chambre jaune) was first a novel by Gaston Leroux. The novel was one of the first locked room mystery crime fiction novels. It was first published in France in the periodical L'Illustration from September 1907 to November 1907, then in its own right as a book in 1908.[1][2][3]
There are a few remakes of the film in 1930, 1949 and in 2003.[4][5]
Plot
A young reporter solves a mystery crime. The fictional reporter is Joseph Rouletabille. He works on a complex, and seemingly impossible, crime in which the criminal appears to disappear from a locked room.
Cast
- William Walcott as Professor Strangerson
- Edmund Elton as Robert Darzac
- George Cowl as Frederic Larsan
- Ethel Grey Terry as Mathilde Strangerson
- Lorin Raker as Rouletabille / Joe-Jo
- Jean Del Val as Jean Sainclair
- W.H. Burton as Daddy Jacques
- Henry S. Koser as Bernier
- Jean Ewing as Mme. Bernier
- William Morrison as Judge de Marquet
- Louis R. Grisel as Monsieur Maleine
- John McQuire as Mathieu
- Catherine Ashley as Mme. Mathieu
- Ivan Dobble as The Green Man
See also
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