The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1913 film)

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.[1] It was the first film adaptation of the 1908 novel The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux.[2] Chautard remade the film in the United States in 1919.[3]

The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Directed byEmile Chautard
Maurice Tourneur
Written byMaurice Tourneur
Based onThe Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux
StarringMarcel Simon
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Distributed byEclair
Release date
  • 11 April 1913 (1913-04-11)
Running time
32 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguagesSilent
French intertitles

Synopsis

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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.

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References

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  1. ^ Wlaschin p.149
  2. ^ Goble p.282
  3. ^ Soister, Nicolella & Joyce p.741

Bibliography

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  • 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.
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