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The Frightened Lady (1932)

The Frightened Lady poster
Directed by
T. Hayes Hunter
Genre
thriller film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 27m
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman is terrified in a large English country house. A detective investigates a series of strange events involving the household staff.

tensemysterioussuspensefulgothicdarkold-fashionedtheatrical

What happens

The Frightened Lady (U.S. title: Criminal at Large) is a 1932 British thriller film directed by T. Hayes Hunter and starring Emlyn Williams, Cathleen Nesbitt, Norman McKinnel and Belle Chrystall. It was written by Angus MacPhail and Bryan Edgar Wallace, adapted from Edgar Wallace's 1931 play The Case of the Frightened Lady, which was later filmed as The Case of the Frightened Lady (1940). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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