A penniless brother and sister move back into their childhood home, a rundown country manor. Their plans to launch his journalistic career by faking her murder go awry when they fall foul ...
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Title: Someone at the Door (1936)
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| Aileen Marson | ... | Sally Martin | |
| Billy Milton | ... | Ronnie Martin | |
| Noah Beery | ... | Harry Capel | |
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John Irwin | ... | Bill Reid |
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Charles Mortimer | ... | Sergeant Spedding |
| Edward Chapman | ... | Price | |
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Edward Dignon | ... | Soames |
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Jimmy Godden | ... | Police Constable O'Brien |
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Lawrence Hanray | ... | Poole (as Laurence Hanray) |
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A penniless brother and sister move back into their childhood home, a rundown country manor. Their plans to launch his journalistic career by faking her murder go awry when they fall foul of a gang of jewel thieves trying to find the loot stashed somewhere in the house. Written by Ian Harries <ih@doc.ic.ac.uk>
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28 September 1936 (UK) See more »Filming Locations:
British International Pictures, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, UKCompany Credits
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SOMEONE AT THE DOOR is one of those comedy thrillers that were so popular. This one boasts a gorgeous print and excellent set design (creepy old country house with hidden passageways, etc.) but the plot just doesn't come together. Billy Milton and Aileen Marson play siblings. He's a hack writer looking for an angle and she's just inherited said spooky old house in the country. With a pal in tow (John Irwin), they go down to the house to hatch a plan. Believe it or else, the plan is to fake her murder and get him arrested so he can write some "my confession" stories and make some money. There's a surly butler (Edward Chapman), a bumbling cop (Charles Mortimer), and a visiting businessman Noah Beery) in the mix. There's also a missing missing servant and a cleaning woman (Hermione Gingold in her second film). Directed by Herbert Brenon from a play by Campbell and Dorothy Christie. Milton is quite brash. Marson gets a lot of loving close-ups. She made 16 films in the 1930s and died in childbirth in 1939.