The Ninth Guest

CinematographyBenjamin H. KlineEdited byGene MilfordDistributed byColumbia Pictures65 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

The Ninth Guest, sometimes abbreviated as The 9th Guest, is a 1934 American pre-Code murder mystery film directed by Roy William Neill and starring Donald Cook and Genevieve Tobin.

The film is an adaptation of the 1930 Broadway play The Ninth Guest by Owen Davis, which in turn is based on the 1930 novel, The Invisible Host, by Bruce Manning and Gwen Bristow. The book, play and film all predate Agatha Christie's extremely successful 1939 novel And Then There Were None, which has a similar plot.

Plot

Eight guests at a deadly party are informed by the voice of their unknown host from the radio that they are his enemies, and will all meet his ninth guest: Death.

Cast

• Donald Cook as James Daley
• Genevieve Tobin as Jean Trent
• Hardie Albright as Henry Abbott
• Edward Ellis as Tim Cronin
• Edwin Maxwell as Jason Osgood
• Helen Flint as Sylvia Inglesby
• Samuel Hinds as Dr. Murray Reid
• Nella Walker as Margaret Chisholm
• Vince Barnett as Butler (Jones)
• Sidney Bracey as Butler (Hawkins; credited as Sidney Bracy)

External links

• The Ninth Guest at IMDb
• The Ninth Guest at the TCM Movie Database
• The Ninth Guest at AllMovie
• The Ninth Guest is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive