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The Second Floor Mystery (1930)
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The Second Floor Mystery (1930)

Mystery, Comedy • 58m

Director: Roy Del Ruth

Cast: Grant Withers, Loretta Young, H.B. Warner, Claire McDowell, Sidney Bracey, Crauford Kent, John Loder, Claude King

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Not available on home video

No Home Media

This film has never had an official home-video release in any territory. Repertory screenings and archive prints are currently the only way to see it.

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From Wikipedia:

The film survives complete. A mute print was transferred onto 16mm film by Associated Artists Productions in the 1950s. The Vitaphone soundtrack was lost until 2004 and restored to the film by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A 16mm copy is housed at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research. Also listed as being incomplete at the Library of Congress.

About the film

In this mystery, a man and woman have been corresponding through a "personal" column under the names Lord Strawberries and Lady Grapefruit. When the man's neighbor is found dead upstairs, he and the lady are the prime suspects of a police inspector, who has his own very good reason for blaming them.

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