The Phantom in the House (1929)
1929 · Feature film · 58 min · dir. Phil Rosen
- Crime
- Drama
- Mystery
Synopsis
The Phantom in the House is a 1929 American pre-Code talking film directed by Phil Rosen and starring Ricardo Cortez. A silent version was prepared for release in theatres not yet equipped for sound.
Synopsis from Wikipedia
Details
- Director
- Phil Rosen
- Writer
- Andrew Soutar
- Released
- 1929-10-20
- Running time
- 58 minutes
Cast & crew
Phil Rosen Director
Ricardo Cortez
Nancy Welford
Henry B. Walthall
Grace Valentine- Thomas A. Curran
Jack Curtis
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Father knows best? · picfixer · 2010-06-10
The reasons why this is a bad, early sound film are mostly circumstantial. In 1929 many producers, directors and screenplay writers still were stuck in silent-era mindsets, and good dialog writers were in desperately short supply, as were actors who could convincingly recite dialog. The result was many movies like this one, with its primitive dialog and hokey plot loaded with self-sacrificing histrionics. The acting, particularly by the female leads, is nothing short of awful. Relatively speaking the male leads do okay, and both would go on to better things. Regardless of its flaws, this…
