• Rating:
• Genre: Mystery
• Themes: Party Film, Suicide
• Director: Phil Rosen
• Main Cast: Virginia Bruce, Conrad Nagel, Melvyn Douglas, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Ian Keith
• Release Year: 1935
• Country: US
• Run Time: 66 minutes

Plot

Adapted from a typically tricky J. B. Priestley stage play, Dangerous Corner is a cautionary fable about the damage caused by telling the unvarnished truth. A burned-out radio tube is the catalyst for a series of painful and potentially dangerous revelations during a weekend party. The upshot of all this is the suicide of party guest Ian Keith and the mysterious theft of a large sum of money. Through an ingenious last-act plot twist (of the kind so beloved by Priestley and his ilk), the audience is treated to both a happy and a tragic denouement. Long ignored by film historians, Dangerous Corner was rediscovered when it popped up repeatedly on the American Movie Classics cable service in the mid-1980s. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Virginia Bruce - Anne Olwen
• Conrad Nagel - Robert Chatfield
• Melvyn Douglas - Charles Stanton
• Erin O'Brien-Moore - Freda Chatfield
• Ian Keith - Martin Chatfield

Betty Furness - Betty; Henry Wadsworth - Gordon; Doris Lloyd - Miss Maude Mockridge

Credit

Anne Morrison Chapin - Screenwriter; Perry Ferguson - Art Director; Roy Hunt - Cinematographer; Archie Marshek - Editor; Van Nest Polglase - Art Director; J.B. Priestley - Play Author; Phil Rosen - Director; Madeleine Ruthven - Screenwriter; Max Steiner - Composer (Music Score); Max Steiner - Musical Direction/Supervision; Arthur Sibcom - Producer; Anne Morrison - Screenwriter; B.P. Fineman - Producer