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Cinematic Creeps => Classic Monster Movies => Topic started by: Mike Scott on January 02, 2014, 12:28:05 AM

Title: Secret of the Blue Room
Post by: Mike Scott on January 02, 2014, 12:28:05 AM
Having gotten the "Seven Keys to Baldpate" triple feature that Warner Archives put out in 2012, I was hoping that Universal would do the same with "Secret of the Blue Room" (1933), "The Missing Guest" (1938) and "Murder in the Blue Room" (1944). It seems like a natural for the Universal Vault Series! Anybody else like to see this released?
Title: Re: Secret of the Blue Room
Post by: Dr Wolfenstein on January 02, 2014, 01:19:41 AM
  I'd never heard of these movies so searched IMDB.They seem like a great murder mystery haunted mansion series.Love to see them.Only problem with Warner Archives is that they don't ship to Australia. >:( Whats the quality like on their releases?I'm might do an ebay search for "Seven Keys of Baldplate" triple.
Title: Re: Secret of the Blue Room
Post by: Flower on January 02, 2014, 07:03:55 AM
I've never heard of them either but will try to find it on YouTube .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_of_the_Blue_Room (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_of_the_Blue_Room) .. I'm a fan of Lionel Atwill, Gloria Stuart and Edward Arnold so it will be a joy just to see them together.

Thanks for the heads up.
Title: Re: Secret of the Blue Room
Post by: Flower on January 02, 2014, 07:08:00 AM
I found it on YouTube and will watch it later ... Secret of the Blue Room (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXPfd5B7ylo#)
Title: Re: Secret of the Blue Room
Post by: Memphremagog on January 02, 2014, 07:37:02 AM
I have SECRET from Sinister Cinema, however, I would love to see this and MURDER released by Universal in a restored form. MURDER sports a cast of Universal '40's cast players, including Anne Gwynne.
Title: Re: Secret of the Blue Room
Post by: Mike Scott on January 02, 2014, 10:31:01 AM
Quote from: Dr Wolfenstein on January 02, 2014, 01:19:41 AM
They seem like a great murder mystery haunted mansion series.

Not a "series", as such. The last two are remakes of the first. They're also Universal, not Warner.

Quote from: Dr Wolfenstein on January 02, 2014, 01:19:41 AM
I'm might do an ebay search for "Seven Keys of Baldplate" triple.

If you like "old dark house" comedies, like "The Cat and the Canary", you might like them.
Title: Re: Secret of the Blue Room
Post by: Mike Scott on January 02, 2014, 10:36:48 AM
Quote from: Flower on January 02, 2014, 07:03:55 AM
Thanks for the heads up.

Just in case anyone thought I was saying these are being released, they're not, as far as I know. Just wishing!
Title: Re: Secret of the Blue Room
Post by: Haunted hearse on January 02, 2014, 11:19:50 AM
Wasn't the play the movie was based on written by George M. Cohen?  I Thought it was a lost movie. 
Title: Re: Secret of the Blue Room
Post by: Mike Scott on January 02, 2014, 11:40:30 AM
Quote from: Haunted hearse on January 02, 2014, 11:19:50 AM
Wasn't the play the movie was based on written by George M. Cohen?  I Thought it was a lost movie.

Cohen wrote a play based on Earl Derr Biggers' (Charlie Chan author) novel. The movies are all based on the play. The 1925 silent version of "Seven Keys to Baldpate" is a lost film.
Title: Re: Secret of the Blue Room
Post by: Mike Scott on January 02, 2014, 02:30:36 PM
Quote from: Dr Wolfenstein on January 02, 2014, 01:19:41 AM
Only problem with Warner Archives is that they don't ship to Australia.

Amazon always carries the Warner Archive DVDs. Can you order from US Amazon?