The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933)

Directed by

James Whale

Genre

drama film, crime film, trial film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 09m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 19 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman is murdered in Vienna. A lawyer defends her husband in court and starts to suspect his own wife might be unfaithful.

suspensefultensemelancholicdarkmysterioussomberpre-codetheatrical

What happens

The Kiss Before the Mirror is a 1933 American pre-Code mystery thriller film directed by James Whale and starring Nancy Carroll, Frank Morgan, Paul Lukas, and Gloria Stuart. An adaptation of the Ladislas Fodor stage play of the same name, the film focuses on the torrid mystery of a young woman's murder in Vienna. Released by Universal Pictures in the spring of 1933, The Kiss Before the Mirror was made after Whale had completed The Old Dark House (1932), during a period in which he was waiting for the screenplay of his followup feature, The Invisible Man (1933), to be finalized. Whale remade the film in 1938 as Wives Under Suspicion. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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