A Dangerous Affair | |
Director: | Edward Sedgwick |
Producer: | Harry Cohn |
Starring: | Jack Holt Ralph Graves Sally Blane |
Cinematography: | Ted Tetzlaff |
Editing: | Gene Havlick |
Studio: | Columbia Pictures |
Distributor: | Columbia Pictures |
Runtime: | 75 minutes |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
A Dangerous Affair is a 1931 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Edward Sedgwick and starring Jack Holt, Ralph Graves and Sally Blane.[1]
Members of the Randolph family assemble to hear how millions of dollars will be distributed according to a will, but the attorney in charge is murdered. A police lieutenant eventually finds the murderer in a film that Harrison's Reports said included "every known device to hold the spectator in breathless suspense — trap doors, mysterious murders and disappearances, screams, and bony arms protruding from behind half-closed doors, grabbing unsuspecting victims by the throat ...".[2]