The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1913 film)

The Mystery of the Yellow Room
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Directed by	Emile Chautard Maurice Tourneur
Written by	Maurice Tourneur
Based on	The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux
Starring	Marcel Simon
Production company	Eclair
Distributed by	Eclair
Release dates	11 April 1913
Running time	32 minutes
Country	France
Language	Silent French intertitles

The Mystery of the Yellow Room (French: Le mystère de la chambre jaune) is a 1913 French silent mystery film directed by Emile Chautard and Maurice Tourneur and starring Marcel Simon as the amateur detective Joseph Rouletabille. It was the first film adaptation of the 1908 novel The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux. Chautard remade the film in America in 1919.

Synopsis

In a classic locked-room mystery, Mathilde has been attacked and valuable scientific papers of her father stolen. It appears as through nobody could possible have entered the room and Larsen of the Sûreté is baffled. It falls to the journalist Rouletabille to demonstrate the answer to the case.

Cast

• Marcel Simon as Rouletabille
• Jean Garat as Jean Roussel
• Laurence Duluc as Mathilde Strangerson
• Paul Escoffier as Detective Larsen
• André Liabel as Robert Darzac
• Fernande van Doren
• Maurice de Féraudy
• Devalence

Bibliography

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
• T. Soister, John, Nicolella, Henry & Joyce, Steve. American Silent Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Feature Films, 1913-1929. McFarland, 2014.
• Wlaschin, Ken. Silent Mystery and Detective Movies: A Comprehensive Filmography. McFarland, 2009.

External links

• The Mystery of the Yellow Room at IMDb