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The Ninth Guest (1934) - the "inspiration" for Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians"

An anonymous caller invites a number of guests to a party, telling each one that the party is in his honor. The guests include Dr. Murray Reid (Samuel S. Hinds), a university professor, Henry Abbott (Hardie Albright), a campus radical, Jason Osgood (Edwin Maxwell), the city's mob boss, Sylvia Inglesby (Helen Flint), an attorney, Tim Cronin (Edward Ellis), Sylvia's district attorney, Margaret Chisholm (Nella Walker), a society matron, Jim Daley (Donald Cook), an author, and Jean Trent (Genevieve Tobin), Henry's love interest. When the guests begin to arrive, they find that each is an enemy of another guest. As they have been instructed by the host, the Butler, Hawkins (Sidney Bracey), and his assistant turn on the radio and a voice announces that the guests have been gathered for a game of wit in which "Death" will be the "ninth guest." Later, the guests discover a dead body in a closet, and at eleven o'clock, Osgood dies trying to poison the others. Then, Jean tells the others that Margaret received a letter revealing that she is a bigamist and had committed her husband to an asylum. Distraught at having been found out, Margaret kills herself at midnight. Soon, the remaining guests are bickering among themselves, and when they find a gun on Timothy, Sylvia, attempting to defend him, kills him. Sylvia then commits suicide by throwing herself against the electric gate. At two o'clock, the lights go out, and Dr. Reid is shot and Henry is wounded. As James ties Henry up, sure that he is the killer, he explains that the first body was that of the electrician who wired the apartment for Henry, and that the radio voice was activated by a button located on Henry's chair. Finally, Henry admits his crimes and explains that Margaret's husband was his brother, and that Sylvia was Margaret's attorney and Timothy was a corrupt district attorney. Aware that his love for Jean is hopeless, Henry lets her and James leave, then electrocutes himself. A 1934 American Black & White pre-Code murder mystery horror film (a/k/a "The 9th Guest") directed by Roy William Neill, screenplay by Garnet Weston, based on Owen Davis' Broadway play "The Ninth Guest" (1930), cinematography by Benjamin H. Kline, starring Donald Cook, Genevieve Tobin, Hardie Albright, Edward Ellis, Edwin Maxwell, Helen Flint, Samuel Hinds, Nella Walker, Vince Barnett, and Sidney Bracey. Released by Columbia Pictures. The film's source material, "The Invisible Host" (1930), was a novel by the husband and wife team of Gwen Bristow and Bruce Manning. Their whodunit was inspired by a neighbor whose raucous radio disturbed them day and night. The novel begins: "That makes thirty-seven words, said the girl. Will you read the telegram again? came the voice over the wire. She read: Congratulations stop plans afoot for small surprise party in your honor Bienville penthouse next Saturday eight o'clock stop all sub rose big surprise stop maintain secrecy stop promise you most original party ever staged in New Orleans Signed Your host." The stage production, "The Ninth Guest" (1930), was written by Owen Davis. The Broadway play opened at the Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre in New York on August 25, 1930, and ran for 72 performances. The opening night cast included Berton Churchill, William Courtleigh, Alan Dinehart Grace Kern, Frank Shannon, and Robert Vivian. The book, play and film all predate Agatha Christie's extremely successful novel "And Then There Were None" (1939), which has a similar plot. Though this mystery thriller runs just over an hour, nearly every element of the film's plot was replicated in Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians," including two servants engaged by an agency who follow the written instructions of their absent employer; an unseen host promising death to guests for their past misdeeds through an airwave device; a coward who offers to collude with the murderer in return for his life being spared; an isolated setting that disallows the guests from leaving; each death being executed in order of "unworthiness to live" through a missive of some kind; a thorough search of the premises that leads the characters to conclude that the killer is actually one of them; a total of ten characters of disparate ages, of which seven are male and three female; each surviving character divulging his or her guilty secret as the body count mounts; an uneasy romance between two of the characters who suspect each other despite their growing attraction; a male character managing the tension by drinking to excess, which seals his fate; a remainder of four characters, three male and one female; a sudden loss of electricity that prompts a shot in the dark, revealed to be a death once the lights go on; the two would-be lovers unraveling the solution to the mystery before they can be killed. A refreshingly unpretentious, intriguing, classic studio horror film from the golden age of horror films. Grand Guignol fun with a stylish Art-Deco apartment, and a twist ending.