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I originally posted this over in the Poverty Row Horrors folder. I think I put it in the wrong place, it might gain more attention here....In my recent zeal to catch up on forgotten horrors, I watched...

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I haven't seen it recently enough to comment -- but your post has put me in the mood, I'll check it out over the weekend. In the meantime, here's an older thread:...

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Thanks for pointing me to that thread! Pretty much covers it. I keep thinking I've found something new and the experts already beat me to it!

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I watched this one about a month ago. It took a little while to get going, lots of introductory set up as the guest get their invitations and all, but a serviceable Saturday night mystery.

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http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=11139 The play it was based on. There are some familiar (from the movies) names in the cast -- and even the playwright is in it.

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According to VARIETY, Columbia originally intended for the playwright-actor Owen Moore, Alan Dinehart and Berton Churchill -- all of whom were in the play -- in the movie, and maybe others from the...

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Thanks for the info Tom. The previous thread states that Owen Davis contributed anonymously to "The Man They Could Not Hang".

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Apparently, book and play were both 1930.  The book was called "The Invisible Host", published by The Mystery League....                                      "Don't put me down!"

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A CHFB lurker informs me that (again!) I've gotten things all balled-up. Owen Davis adapted the book into a play and his SON Owen Davis Jr. was IN the play. And it was Jr. that Columbia wanted in the...

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And that clears up the sequence of works:  book/play/movie/unofficial '39 remake....                       "Put the girl down!"

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<< a death every hour on the hour. << I watched it again tonight for the first time in quite a while ... and unfortunately I still remembered whodunit, so it was a bit of a long, hard sit....

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Glad to hear love for And Then There Were None, a spookier piece than the other two by far....                                 "To be or..."

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Everson's MORE CLASSICS OF THE HORROR FILM includes a nice full-page still from NINTH GUEST, plus a paragraph of coverage (on page 106) as a lead-in to a discussion of MAN THEY COULD NOT HANG.

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Cool, Wich2.  A jacket I assume.  My hardcover cover just has a small magnifying glass above a cowering figure, the insignia apparently of The Mystery League....  (A good title for a movie,...

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This one's been on my wish list for a while now, but i never have gotten 'round to picking up a copy.

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