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A choirmaster addicted to opium and obsessed with a beautiful young woman will stop at nothing to possess her.
Keywords
based on novel or book
obsession
arranged marriage
murder
unrequited love
storm
false accusations
guardian
disguise
guilt
nephew
presumed dead
tomb
missing person
addict
bell tower
opium den
orphan siblings
romantic rival
singing in choir
rumors
temper
music lessons
brother and sister
cemetary
Casts

Claude Rains
John Jasper

Douglass Montgomery
Neville Landless

Heather Angel
Rosa Bud

Valerie Hobson
Helena Landless

David Manners
Edwin Drood

Francis L. Sullivan
Rev. Mr. Crisparkle

Zeffie Tilbury
The Opium Woman

Ethel Griffies
Miss Twinkleton

E. E. Clive
Sapsea

Walter Kingsford
Grewgious

Forrester Harvey
Durdles
Veda Buckland
Mrs. Tope
Elsa Buchanan
Mrs. Tisher

George Ernest
Deputy

J.M. Kerrigan
Chief Verger Tope

Bunny Beatty
Schoolgirl (uncredited)

May Beatty
School Cook (uncredited)
Evelyn Beresford
Old Maid (uncredited)

Walter Brennan
Milkman (uncredited)
Rosita Butler
Schoolgirl (uncredited)

Louise Carter
Mrs. Crisparkle (uncredited)
Edward Cooper
Dean (uncredited)

Harry Cording
Turk, an Opium Addict (uncredited)

D'Arcy Corrigan
Opium Addict (uncredited)

Anne Darling
Schoolgirl (uncredited)

Gordon Douglas
Coroner (uncredited)

Effie Ellsler
Townswoman (uncredited)

Will Geer
Village Lamplighter (uncredited)
Helena Grant
Maid (uncredited)
Anne Harrison
Schoolgirl (uncredited)
George Kirby
Bailiff (uncredited)

Carla Laemmle
Schoolgirl (uncredited)
Dora Mayfield
Gossip (uncredited)
Iris Moore
Schoolgirl (uncredited)

Corbet Morris
Dancing Master (uncredited)
Anne O'Neal
Crisparkle Maid (uncredited)

Helen Parrish
Schoolgirl (uncredited)
Barbara Perry
Schoolgirl (uncredited)
Dorothy Shearer
Schoolgirl (uncredited)

Eugene Strong
Coachman (uncredited)
Lois Verner
Schoolgirl (uncredited)

Lloyd Whitlock
Townsman (uncredited)
Crews
Margaret Donovan
Hairstylist
Gladys Unger
Screenplay
Edward Ward
Original Music Composer
Clifford Vaughan
Orchestrator
Edward Curtiss
Editor

Carl Laemmle Jr.
Producer
Gilbert Kurland
Sound Supervisor

John L. Balderston
Screenplay
John P. Fulton
Special Effects

Otto Lederer
Makeup Artist
Edmund Grainger
Associate Producer

Albert S. D'Agostino
Art Direction

Carl Laemmle
Presenter
Stuart Walker
Director
George Robinson
Director of Photography
Camille Collins
Production Secretary
Hilda Grenier
Technical Advisor

Charles Dickens
Novel

Bradley King
Adaptation
Leopold Atlas
Adaptation

Phil Karlson
Assistant Director
Harry Mancke
Assistant Director
Frank Beetson Jr.
Wardrobe Designer
Myrtle Gibsone
Script Supervisor
Backdrops & Posters










































