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While the Patient Slept (1935)

6.4 | Mar 09, 1935 (US) | Mystery | 01:06

MURDER IN THE BEDROOM!

A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.

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Aline MacMahon
Nurse Sarah Keate
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Guy Kibbee
Detective Lt. Lance O'Leary
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Patricia Ellis
March Federie, Richard's Granddaughter
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Hobart Cavanaugh
Eustace Federie
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Dorothy Tree
Mittie Federie
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Robert Barrat
Adolphe Federie
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Helen Flint
Isobel Federie - Adolphe's Wife
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Lyle Talbot
Ross Lonergan
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Henry O'Neill
Elihu Dimuck
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Walter Walker
Richard Federie

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CinemaSerf
6 | Jun 19, 2022
Guy Kibbee ("O'Leary") and Aline MacMahon ("Nurse Sarah") are clearly having some fun in this amiably entertaining big house murder mystery. The story centres around a dying old millionaire who finds his grasping family assembling to see what they are going to get! When the butler is killed, everyone starts pointing fingers, and it falls to these two to, rarely in conjunction and frequently despite themselves, get to the bottom of things. It doesn't hang around, there is plenty of quick-witted dialogue and though the plot - there are twins involved, which is always a bit of a giveaway - is maybe not the most taxing, it does end quite quirkily and I rather enjoyed it.