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The Deceiver

11/21/1931

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1hr 6min

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Drama

,Mystery

A Knave of Hearts Plays His Last Scene and Rings Down the Curtain on a Baffling Mystery!

STORY

Broadway matinee idol, Shakespearean actor Reginald Thorpe, is found dead in his dressing room on the eve of his departure for Hollywood. Thorpe's understudy, Tony Hill, is suspected, particularly in light of his skill with knives. Thorpe, however, was a lady's man who seems to have been involved in blackmailing one of his lovers.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Lloyd Hughes
  • Dorothy Sebastian
  • Ian Keith
  • Natalie Moorhead
  • Richard Tucker

    Director

  • Louis King

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Columbia Pictures

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Lloyd Hughes

Tony Hill

Dorothy Sebastian

Ina Fontanne

Ian Keith

Reginald Thorpe

Natalie Moorhead

Mrs. Lawson

Richard Tucker

Mr. Lawson

Greta Granstedt

Celia Adams

John Wayne

Reginald Thorpe as a corpse