The Second Floor Mystery


58m 1930

Film Details

Genre
Comedy
Release Date
Apr 26, 1930
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Warner Brothers Pictures
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the novel The Agony Column by Earl Derr Biggers (Indianapolis, 1916).

Technical Specs

Duration
58m
Sound
Vitaphone
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1
Film Length
5,628ft (7 reels)

Synopsis

Geoffrey West and Marian Ferguson, Americans who see each other in a London hotel, begin a series of epistolary communications through "The Agony Column" in the Times , identifying themselves respectively as "the strawberry man" and "the grapefruit lady," denoting their breakfast menus. He is advised that if he publishes a letter for 5 successive days, and if they are sufficiently interesting, she will meet him. He invents a murder in which Captain Fraser and his young brother, Norman, are involved and ends his series of letters by confessing to the crime himself. Marian arrives with the police and has him thrown into a dungeon from which he is rescued by anarchists. He finds her bound and gagged in a perilous situation; but he discovers that the whole affair has been staged by her to give him a taste of his own imagination.

Film Details

Genre
Comedy
Release Date
Apr 26, 1930
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Warner Brothers Pictures
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the novel The Agony Column by Earl Derr Biggers (Indianapolis, 1916).

Technical Specs

Duration
58m
Sound
Vitaphone
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1
Film Length
5,628ft (7 reels)

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