An ordinary man is confronted by gangsters who have reason to believe a treasure is buried somewhere on his property.An ordinary man is confronted by gangsters who have reason to believe a treasure is buried somewhere on his property.An ordinary man is confronted by gangsters who have reason to believe a treasure is buried somewhere on his property.
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Claud Allister
- John Jason
- (as Claude Allister)
Arthur Edmund Carewe
- Ivan Borolsky, aka Jim
- (as Arthur Edmund Carew)
William B. Davidson
- Bill Dennett
- (as William Davidson)
Constantine Romanoff
- Pirate in Dream Sequence
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaAlthough this film was in the Associated Artists Productions (AAP) film library purchased from Warner Bros. in 1956, legal complications prevented it from being telecast until it finally appeared on the Turner Classic Movies schedule Monday 10 July 1995.
- GoofsIn the scene where Poppy and Anna meet, just before they leave the room, a fly is seen crawling on the left cheek and ear of Kay Strozzi. Scene is cut to Mary Brian and then back to Kay again, where the fly once again lands on her, this time on the right cheek.
- ConnectionsVersion of Strangers of the Night (1923)
- SoundtracksDrink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
(uncredited)
Music by R. Melish (1780)
Lyrics (poem to Celia) by Ben Jonson
Played on a bass violin by John Halliday
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I'm watching this antique Old Dark House mystery on TCM right now and it quickly became evident to me that the film, its first silent incarnation ("Strangers In The Night") or the play it was adapted from were the first kernel of inspiration for Belgian comic book artist Hergé (Georges Rémi)'s "Secret of the Unicorn" and its sequel "The Treasure of Rackham the Red" (1943-1944). More proof that a large part of the inspiration for Hergé's melodramatic adventures were from sometimes second-rate Hollywood movies and plots that were very creaky to begin with. What he did with them of course was sheer genius and entirely original. But the basic idea was this: An ordinary man discovers that he is the descendant and inheritor of a famous pirate's treasure hidden somewhere in an old house. In the process, he has flashbacks of being the pirate himself, which is just what happens to Captain Haddock in those comic books.
Of course, not all of Hergé's inspirations were "second-rate". One might also reflect on the similarity of the ending of Sacha Guitry's "Les Perles de la Couronne" (The Pearls of the Crown, 1936, finally available on DVD in the US) and the ending of Hergé's "L'Oreille cassée" (The Broken Ear, published as a serial starting in 1935 and ending in 1937).
Of course, not all of Hergé's inspirations were "second-rate". One might also reflect on the similarity of the ending of Sacha Guitry's "Les Perles de la Couronne" (The Pearls of the Crown, 1936, finally available on DVD in the US) and the ending of Hergé's "L'Oreille cassée" (The Broken Ear, published as a serial starting in 1935 and ending in 1937).
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- Runtime1 hour 3 minutes
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