Thirteen Women (1932)

Directed by

George Archainbaud

Genre

slasher film, mystery film

Country

United States

Runtime

59 min

Rated

NR

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 36 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A mysterious woman from India uses her hypnotic powers to manipulate and kill a group of former sorority sisters. Each of the women receives a cryptic prediction about her own death as a psychic seeks to stop the killings.

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What happens

Thirteen Women is a 1932 American pre-Code psychological thriller film, produced by David O. Selznick and directed by George Archainbaud. It stars Myrna Loy, Irene Dunne and Ricardo Cortez. The film is based on the 1932 bestselling novel of the same name by Tiffany Thayer and was adapted for the screen by Bartlett Cormack and Samuel Ornitz. The film premiered in October at the Roxy Theater in New York City on October 15, 1932, then released in Los Angeles, and a few other cities in November 1932. A limited national release came in 1933. Originally running 73 minutes, the studio edited 14 minutes from the picture before release. The film was re-released in 1935 (post-Code) by RKO, hoping to turn a profit by cashing on the growing popularity of stars Dunne and Loy. Several characters were deleted from the film's final version, including those played by Leon Ames, Phyllis Fraser, and Betty Furness (in what would have been Furness's film debut at the age of 16). The film portrays only 11 women, not 13, with Fraser and Furness playing the two characters edited from the film. Thirteen Women has been cited as an early "female ensemble" film, as well as an early influence on the "slasher film" genre. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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