Curtain at Eight

5.9(7)19331h 8m

Mystery

An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? A suicided actress's sister? The temperamental prop man? Or maybe the show's talented female chimpanzee?

Director

E. Mason Hopper

Where to watch

Free

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Cast

C. Aubrey Smith

Detective Jim Hanley

Sam Hardy

Capt. Martin Gallagher

Russell Hopton

Reporter Mooney

Ruthelma Stevens

Doris Manning

Hale Hamilton

J.K. Manning

Jack Mulhall

Carey Weldon

Dorothy Mackaill

Lola Cresmer

Syd Saylor

Mac MacIntosh, the prop man

Paul Cavanagh

Wylie Thornton

Natalie Moorhead

Alma Jenkins Thornton

Marion Shilling

Anice Cresmer

William Humphrey

Allison, addled actor

Reviews

1 review

Geronimo1967

3y ago

6.0

When "Wylie Thornton" (Paul Cavanagh), an actor who likes the company of women - not necessarily his wife - is shot at his own birthday party, we have no shortage of suspects. Detectives "Halliday" (Sam Hardy) and his sidekick "Hanvey" (C. Aubrey Smith) are soon drafted in to fathom it all out... Much of this is just a standard whodunit, and as we discover just how unpleasant "Wylie" actually was,...