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Known as America's Agatha Christie, leading female crime novelist Mignon Eberhart cowrote this faithful adaptation of her popular novel While the Patient Slept. It features a clever nurse (Aline MacMahon) summoned to a mansion when an elderly man (Walter Walker) has a stroke after reading a telegram from his disinherited son (Robert H. Barrat). The unexpected murder of his other son (also Robert H. Barrat) turns the nurse into an amateur sleuth as she joins forces with a handsome detective (Guy Kibbee) to uncover family secrets and find the killer.
Original Release
03/09/1935
US Release
03/09/1935
Cast
Name | Character |
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Aline MacMahon | Sarah Keate / Nurse Sarah Keate |
Guy Kibbee | Lance O'Leary / Detective Lt. Lance O'Leary |
Lyle Talbot | Ross / Ross Lonergan |
Patricia Ellis | March / March Federie, Richard's Granddaughter |
Allen Jenkins | Jackson / Police Sgt. Jim Jackson |
Robert Barrat | Adolphe / Adolphe Federie |
Hobart Cavanaugh | Eustace / Eustace Federie |
Dorothy Tree | Mittie / Mittie Federie |
Henry O'Neill | Dimuck / Elihu Dimuck |
Russell Hicks | Dr. Jay |
Directors
Writers
Robert N. Lee, Eugene Solow, Mignon G. Eberhart, Brown Holmes
Cast
Name | Character |
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Aline MacMahon | Sarah Keate / Nurse Sarah Keate |
Guy Kibbee | Lance O'Leary / Detective Lt. Lance O'Leary |
Lyle Talbot | Ross / Ross Lonergan |
Patricia Ellis | March / March Federie, Richard's Granddaughter |
Allen Jenkins | Jackson / Police Sgt. Jim Jackson |
Robert Barrat | Adolphe / Adolphe Federie |
Hobart Cavanaugh | Eustace / Eustace Federie |
Dorothy Tree | Mittie / Mittie Federie |
Henry O'Neill | Dimuck / Elihu Dimuck |
Russell Hicks | Dr. Jay |
Helen Flint | Isobel Federie / Isobel Federie - Adolphe's Wife |
Brandon Hurst | Grondal / Grondal - the Butler |
Eddie Shubert | Detective Muldoon |
Walter Walker | Richard Federie |
Joseph E. Bernard | 'Murph' Murphy - the Ballistics Expert |
George Chandler | Evening Bulletin Reporter |
Nick Copeland | Detective Davis aka Johnson |
Joseph Crehan | Evening Bulletin Editor |
Bill Elliott | Bank Teller |
Virginia Howell | Kema - the Cook |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Harry Joe Brown | Producer |