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The Mystery of the Yellow Room is a american film of genre Drama directed by Émile Chautard released in USA on 19 october 1919 with Ethel Grey Terry
The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1919)
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Add to a movie listThe Mystery of the Yellow Room is a 1919 American motion picture crime drama made by the Mayflower Photoplay Company and distributed through Realart Pictures Corporation. Emile Chautard was a French actor, director, and producer. Chautard was 55 years old when "The Mystery of the Yellow Room" was released in 1919. The Mystery of the Yellow Room (in French Le mystère de la chambre jaune) was first a novel by Gaston Leroux. The novel was one of the first locked room mystery crime fiction novels. It was first published in France in the periodical L'Illustration from September 1907 to November 1907, then in its own right as a book in 1908.
There are a few remakes of the film in 1930, 1949 and in 2003.
Synopsis
A young reporter solves a mystery crime. The fictional reporter is Joseph Rouletabille. He works on a complex, and seemingly impossible, crime in which the criminal appears to disappear from a locked room.Actors
Ethel Grey Terry
(Mathilde Strangerson)
Jean Del Val
(Jean Sainclair)
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