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Boaz357	Secret of the Blue Room 1933	Lead	[-]
Jun 21 09 2:39 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Sorry if i'm mistaken, could not find a thread for this one. "Twenty years after 3 murders occur in a castle's "blue room", three men who each want to marry a beautiful girl decide to spend a night in the room to prove their bravery to her." Just watched this.Nice little crusty film from Universal.Lionel Atwill is good as ever and the film has nice atmosphere. Its got the same opening and closing music as 'Dracula'. **Maybe Spoilers** Also did anyone notice, towards the end of the film when the criminal is being chased down the dungeon stairs, there is a set that looks an awful lot like the set from 'Abbot and Costello Meets Frankenstein'?
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Alias the Scarecrow		#1	[-]
Jun 21 09 6:29 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Although this film definetly shows it's age, it is still an enjoyable tale to watch..superior to the MURDER IN THE BLUE ROOM remake of 1944(which only had Anne Gwynne going for it..). This was another vintage Lionel Atwill performance in his halcyon days of the early '30's.
TomWeaver999		#2	[-]
Jun 21 09 9:11 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	There's also a 1938 remake, THE MISSING GUEST. And in the 1935 THE GREAT IMPERSONATION, in one scene where everybody's getting ready to go to bed in this big spooky old mansion, one guest hears that he's going to sleep in The Blue Room and he does a little bit of a double-take!
Chesterbelloc		#3	[-]
Jun 21 09 9:52 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	there is a set that looks an awful lot like the set from 'Abbot and Costello Meets Frankenstein'? I think the set is the crypt from DRACULA, and it may have been used again in A&C MEET FRANK(though I don't remember it). Good little movie, Universal should release this one on DVD. And in the 1935 THE GREAT IMPERSONATION, in one scene where everybody's getting ready to go to bed in this big spooky old mansion, one guest hears that he's going to sleep in The Blue Room and he does a little bit of a double-take! Thanks to a kind soul on these boards, I did see GREAT IMPERSONATION several years ago. The movie is loaded with great little things like what Tom mentioned here. Even though it's not technically a horror film, it sure looks and feels like one. Check out my movie collection at: http://www.dvdaf.com/search.html?where=larryw7&init_form=where_0_larryw7*mode_more
TomWeaver999		#4	[-]
Jun 21 09 10:56 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	It's a spy movie with a "horror subplot" (the HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES-derived tangent, with Dwight Frye playing the mystery man of the moors). The 1942 remake did away with it, perhaps wisely!
Mongo		#5	[-]
Jun 22 09 4:31 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Alias the Scarecrow wrote: Although this film definetly shows it's age, it is still an enjoyable tale to watch..superior to the MURDER IN THE BLUE ROOM remake of 1944(which only had Anne Gwynne going for it..). This was another vintage Lionel Atwill performance in his halcyon days of the early '30's. Unique in this film is the ultimate use of the SWAN LAKE motif, used at the end of the film as well as the begining. Interesting the way this film closes with a scene of the castle door swinging shut to the strains of Swan Lake thereby closing the door on Universals use of that theme.
PhantomXCI		#6	[-]
Jun 22 09 4:51 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Chesterbelloc wrote: there is a set that looks an awful lot like the set from 'Abbot and Costello Meets Frankenstein'? I think the set is the crypt from DRACULA, and it may have been used again in A&C MEET FRANK(though I don't remember it). Good little movie, Universal should release this one on DVD. I don't recall the crypt from DRACULA, but the secret underground staircase is the one from the laboratory in FRANKENSTEIN. For what it's worth, SOTBR is a remake of a 1932 German film, DAS GEHEIMNIS DES BLAUEN ZIMMERS, and incorporates stock footage of the exterior castle shots. Although it's been a while since I've seen either film, I do recall thinking the American version was better.
zogstar67		#7	[-]
Jun 24 09 9:34 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	For me, the brief shot when the characters first enter the Blue Room is one of the great atmospheric horror shots of early Universal. Right up there with the billowing curtains of CAT AND THE CANARY and OLD DARK HOUSE. I'm not sure why it's so effective, but it perfectly conveys the aura of a haunted place. To me, at least. Chris Herzog "THE WORLD'S QUAINTEST CLOWN" VISIT ME AT MY SPACE: http://www.myspace.com/39159010
TomWeaver999		#8	[-]
Jun 24 09 11:34 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	<< SOTBR is a remake of a 1932 German film, DAS GEHEIMNIS DES BLAUEN ZIMMERS << I've never seen that; I once knew somebody who was hot on the trail of it, but apparently the trail went cold. (Or HE went cold on ME!) Is it available somewhere?
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Alias the Scarecrow		#9	[-]
Jul 22 09 5:15 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Just watched this again last night. For a film that was made during a period when many of the other movies that premiered at the time now seem so dated, it still holds up rather reasonably.
CreepingBride		#10	[-]
Aug 8 09 6:17 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	THE SECRET OF THE BLUE ROOM is one of the few non-horror Uni horrors that still satisfies, unlike, say, those "Inner Sanctum" movies. I think that any 11 year-old kid who has struggled to stay awake for the late, late show to see it would still be satisfied even though it is monsta-less. If only we coulda got Poor Bela in Paul Lukas's role! Like zogstar67 sez, the atmosphere can't be beat, whether it's the Blue Room or the secret passages...It seems like everyone involved in this production works to sell it like horror, and I, for one, am buying.
BixB		#11	[-]
Aug 8 09 9:28 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	As it turns out the Capitol Theatre in Rome New York is showing SOTBR tonight on the big screen as part of their annual festival of silents & early talkies. Supposedly all the films they run are 35mm. Capitolfest Joe Busam
PhantomXCI		#12	[-]
Aug 8 09 9:35 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The Capitol only runs 35mm. I've seen some beautiful prints there, and it's well worth the travel for anyone who lives in the upstate NY area. TServo is there as we speak, and I'll be there tomorrow for RED LIGHTS (1923).
doctor kiss		#13	[-]
Aug 9 09 8:14 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	PhantomXCI wrote: SOTBR is a remake of a 1932 German film, DAS GEHEIMNIS DES BLAUEN ZIMMERS, and incorporates stock footage of the exterior castle shots. There was yet a third version of the movie during 1932/33 as well, the Czech remake ZÁHADA MODRÉHO POKOJE (literally... what a surprise... 'Secret of the Blue Room'), which likewise incorporated exterior shots from the German original. This Czech version reached cinemas in February 1933, just two months after DAS GEHEIMNIS DES BLAUEN ZIMMERS had premiered in Berlin, and five months before THE SECRET OF THE BLUE ROOM was released. Re-doing it the Czech way: Austrian film programme for the original German version:
PhantomXCI		#14	[-]
Aug 9 09 10:34 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The actor on the left (probably playing "The Stranger" looks like Hans Albers.
doctor kiss		#15	[-]
Aug 9 09 11:50 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	In the still from the Czech production, it's František Smolík on the left playing 'The Stranger', and František Kovárík on the right as the butler; both actors had long careers as character performers in Czech cinema. In the German version, meanwhile, the rôle of 'The Stranger' was played by Bernhard Goetzke, stony-faced 'Death' himself from Fritz Lang's DER MÜDE TOD (1921).
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