The Death Kiss (1932)

Directed by

Edwin L. Marin

Genre

mystery film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 15m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 36 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A studio writer investigates a murder that happens on a film set. He works with an actress to find the real killer before the police arrest the wrong person.

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What happens

The Death Kiss is a 1933 American pre-Code mystery film starring David Manners as a crusading studio writer, Adrienne Ames as an actress, and Bela Lugosi as a studio manager. The thriller features three leading players from the previous year's Dracula (Lugosi, Manners, and Edward Van Sloan), and was the first film directed by Edwin L. Marin. The film was produced by KBS Productions at Tiffany Pictures and released by Sono Art-World Wide Pictures. The film's main plot devices was reused for the 1946 French film That's Not the Way to Die starring Erich von Stroheim. The film is currently in the public domain. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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