Secret of the Blue Room (1933)

Director
Kurt Neumann

Main cast
Lionel Atwill; Gloria Stuart; Paul Lukas; Edward Arnold; Onslow Stevens

Genres
Drama, Horror, Mystery

Description
According to legend, the mansion's "blue room" is cursed--everyone who has ever spent the night in that room has met with an untimely end. The three suitors of the heroine (Gloria Stuart) wager that each can survive a night in the forbidding blue room.


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