The Preview Murder Mystery
Mystery
Thriller
SCREEN STAR MURDERED! All Hollywood Thrown in an Uproar!
Someone is murdering the cast and crew of a new Hollywood movie, and the leading lady may be next. As a police detective locks down the lot and refuses to let anyone leave, the studio’s publicity head and his secretary attempt to solve the murders themselves.
1936-02-28
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Cast
Director
Robert Florey
Frances Drake as Peggy Madison
Reginald Denny as Johnny Morgan
Gail Patrick as Claire Woodward
George Barbier as Jerome Hewitt
Ian Keith as E. Gordon Smith
Rod La Rocque as Neil Du Beck
Conway Tearle as Edwin Strange
Thomas E. Jackson as Detective McKane
Colin Tapley as Studio Manager
Jack Mulhall as Jack Rawlins
Bryant Washburn as Karl Jennings
Franklyn Farnum as James Deley
Lee Shumway as Chief of Police
Spencer Charters as Jones - Watchman
Chester Conklin as Comedian
Hank Mann as Comedian
William Bailey as Studio Commissary Chief (Uncredited)
Bobby Barber as Prop Man (Uncredited)
Sidney Bracey as Du Beck's Valet (Uncredited)
Henry Brandon as The Bat Man (Uncredited)
Nell Craig as Woman in Preview Audience (Uncredited)
Lester Dorr as Reporter (Uncredited)
Eddie Dunn as Tub Wilson (Uncredited)
Estelle Etterre as Hewitt's Secretary (Uncredited)
Matty Fain as Reporter (Uncredited)
John George as The Gnome (Uncredited)
Chuck Hamilton as Policeman (Uncredited)
Edward Hearn as Officer (Uncredited)
Isabel La Mal as Woman in Preview Audience (Uncredited)
Wilfred Lucas as Director (Uncredited)
Philo McCullough as Policeman (Uncredited)
Torben Meyer as Briggs - Smith's Butler (Uncredited)
Frances Morris as Script Girl (Uncredited)
Jack Norton as Comedy Director (Uncredited)
Craig Reynolds as Actor (Uncredited)
Charles Ruggles as Himself (Uncredited)
Ferdinand Schumann-Heink as English Officer (Uncredited)
Phillips Smalley as Ben (Uncredited)
Claude Stroud as Monk Gibbons (Uncredited)
Larry Wheat as Supervisor (Uncredited)