The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1913 film) explained

The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Director:Emile Chautard
Maurice Tourneur
Based On:The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux
Starring:Marcel Simon
Studio:Eclair
Distributor:Eclair
Runtime:32 minutes
Country:France
Language:Silent
French intertitles

The Mystery of the Yellow Room (French: Le mystère de la chambre jaune) is a 1913 French silent mystery film directed by Emile Chautard and Maurice Tourneur and starring Marcel Simon as the amateur detective Joseph Rouletabille.[1] It was the first film adaptation of the 1908 novel The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux.[2] Chautard remade the film in the United States in 1919.[3]

Synopsis

In a classic locked-room mystery, Mathilde has been attacked and valuable scientific papers of her father stolen. It appears as through nobody could possible have entered the room and Larsen of the Sûreté is baffled. It falls to the journalist Rouletabille to demonstrate the answer to the case.

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Notes and References

  1. Wlaschin p.149
  2. Goble p.282
  3. Soister, Nicolella & Joyce p.741