The Mystery of the Villa Rose

The Mystery of the Villa Rose (French: Le mystère de la villa rose) is a 1930 French mystery film directed by René Hervil and Louis Mercanton and starring Léon Mathot, Simone Vaudry, and Louis Baron fils.[1]

The Mystery of the Villa Rose
Film poster
FrenchLe mystère de la villa rose
Directed byRené Hervil
Louis Mercanton
Written by
Based onAt the Villa Rose
by A. E. W. Mason
Produced byJacques Haïk
Starring
CinematographyBasil Emmott
Production
company
Distributed byLes Établissements Jacques Haïk
Release date
  • 17 January 1930 (1930-01-17)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Plot

Madame Dauvray is a rich elderly woman who ends up being murdered by the gang despite detective Langeac trying to save her.

Cast

Production

The film is based on the 1910 novel At the Villa Rose by A. E. W. Mason. A separate English-language version At the Villa Rose was made by Twickenham Studios. The film's sets were designed by James A. Carter. Different sources disagree over where the French-language version was actually made, with one claim that it was produced at Twickenham as the first bilingual film in Britain.[2] Alternatively it is suggested that it was made at the newly established Courbevoie Studios in Paris, in which case it could lay a claim to be one of the earliest French sound films.[1] Britain had converted to sound faster than France so several French filmmakers went to British studios to make films for release in France. Another French-language version of a Mason novel La Maison de la Fléche, was also shot at Twickenham during the period.

Release

In the United States, The Mystery of the Villa Rose opened at the Fifth Avenue Play-house on 15 January 1932.[3]

References
  1. Crisp, Colin (1993). The Classic French Cinema, 1930-1960. Indiana University Press. p. 104. ISBN 0253211158.
  2. Richards, Jeffrey, ed. (1998). The Unknown 1930s: An Alternative History of the British Cinema, 1929-1939. I.B. Tauris. pp. 41–42. ISBN 1860643035.
  3. H.T.S. (11 January 1932). ""At the Villa Rose"". The New York Times.


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