The Female of the Species is More Deadly Than the Male!
In 1910 Manhattan, Victoria Van Brett, a bitter spinster heiress lives an isolated life with her sister Caroline. Her domineering urges go into overdrive when their half-brother Rip brings a new bride home to the family’s gloomy Fifth Avenue mansion, built by their late industrialist father. The title refers to a secret soundproofed chamber that the villainess uses to entrap her enemies.
- 6.9
- 1934
- Released
- 1h 15m
Evelyn Venable
Anne Darrow
Mary Morris
Victoria Van Brett
Anne Revere
Caroline Van Brett
Kent Taylor
Rip Van Brett
Guy Standing
Mortimer Neff
Colin Tapley
Dr. John Lucas
Virginia Howell
Avery
Halliwell Hobbes
Mr. Chase
Frank Dawson
Telson
Helen Shipman
Louise
Leonard Carey
WilliamBurr Caruth
Ralph Remley
Phillips Smalley
May Foster
Rose Plumer
Released
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- #held captive
- #wedding ceremony
- #heiress
- #pre-code
- #bitterness
- #evil woman
- #spinsters
- #half sister
- #1910s
- #manipulative sister
- #secret chamber
- #wicked woman
- #threatened woman
- #secret room
- #overbearing sister
- #controlling sister
- #older sister younger brother
- #sisters relationship
- #trapped in a room
- #oppressive home
- #domineering sister
Reviews
“The play that made Broadway Gasp!” This is a gripping melodrama, anchored by a fearsome performance by Morris as a controlling, maniacal mother to Taylor, determined to sabotage his marriage to winsome Venable. It was to be her only film appearance, although she had a fruitful stage career. Her simpering servant is played by Revere, in her debut, as a woman who is the constant victim of her mistr