72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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The Night of the Party

Michael Powell
     61 m.
Synopsis
A newspaper magnate gives a lavish party in honour of a visiting princess and the guests are invited to play ?murder?. When the lights are turned on again, the magnate is dead and almost everyone present is a suspect. Although his secretary, Guy, is charged, during the trial, Chiddiatt, a foppish ?modern? novelist, becomes deranged and confesses before killing himself.
Director
Michael Powell
Screenplay
Ralph Smart
Photography
Glen Mac Williams
Edition
Derek Twist
Cast
Malcolm Keen (Lord Studholme), Jane Baxter (Peggy Studholme), Ian Hunter (Guy Kennington), Leslie Banks (Sir John Holland), Ernest Thesiger (Adrian Chiddiatt)
Running Time
61 m.
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