She burned down her life over a ghost — and 1930s cinema said 'we love the drama.'
A woman's uncontrollable jealousy over her husband's former girlfriend results in her losing not only her house but her young son is taken away from her.
Acting
Marian Nixon's jealousy face could stop clocks.
Direction
Halperin builds dread in drawing rooms like Hitchcock later would.
Production
That mansion is basically a character that gets murdered.
Director
Victor Halperin
Neil Hamilton
Sir Carlisle Austin
Marian Nixon
Lady Catherine
Judith Barrie
Barbara Lacey
Norman Kerry
Beaumont Winthrop
Harry 'Snub' Pollard
Boggins
Roland Drew
Umberto
José Bohr
Argentinean
Joan Standing
Kilmer
Cornelius Keefe
Keith
May Beatty
Lady Harriett
Lorimer Johnston
Colonel Lacey
Charles Crockett
Parson
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the brief 1929-1934 'pre-Code' window when Hollywood could show divorce, infidelity, and women with actual desires before the Hays Code sanitized everything.
Director Victor Halperin made 'White Zombie' next — apparently destruction of women was his whole brand.
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