Movie: Behind That Curtain

Top 10 Billed Cast

Warner Baxter
Warner Baxter

Col. John Beetham

Lois Moran
Lois Moran

Eve Mannering Durand

E.L. Park
E.L. Park

Police Insp. Charlie Chan

Boris Karloff
Boris Karloff

Beetham's Manservent

Gilbert Emery
Gilbert Emery

Sir Frederick Bruce

Claude King
Claude King

Sir George Mannering

Philip Strange
Philip Strange

Eric Durand

Jamiel Hasson
Jamiel Hasson

Sahib Hana

Peter Gawthrone
Peter Gawthrone

British Police Inspector

John Rogers
John Rogers

Alf Pornick

  • HomePage

  • Overview

    Sir George hires Hillary Gatt to find out more about Eric who wants to marry Lois. Gatt is murdered and the couple, married, run off to India. Old friend John Beetham sympathizes with the bride who sees that her hubby is a liar and drunk.

  • Release Date

    1929-06-30

  • Average

    3.667

  • Rating:

    1.8 starts
  • Tagline

    A Love Mystery Drama of Scotland Yard

  • Genres

  • Languages:

    English

Recommendations Movies

The Stolen Jools
56%

The Stolen Jools(en)

1931-04-04

Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)

RETURN
71%

RETURN(en)

2024-11-07

‘RETURN’ follows Torstein Horgmo, Mikey Ciccarelli, Mons Røisland, Brandon Cocard, Brandon Davis, and Raibu Katayama as they push the boundaries of what can be accomplished snowboarding when innovative minds join forces.

Return
66%

Return(hy)

Eyüp decides to cross mount Ararat looking for his aunt in Yerevan after following a madman's words. His aunt has also been expecting someone to come from behind this mount for many years. Eyüp cannot be sure about the woman he finds behind the blue door, whether it is his aunt or not because they can't understand each other.

Return
60%

Return(fr)

2024-03-21

RETURN
68%

RETURN(ja)

1985-01-01

8mm work directed by Norihiko Morinaga.

Return
64%

Return(en)

2020-01-28

Owen, a young man is dissatisfied with his life. He heads into the forest to escape and learns a lot during his time there.

Fate
35%

Fate(en)

2003-03-14

Serial killers have plagued the American landscape for decades, committing gruesome atrocities, and providing some tough cases for criminal investigators to crack. Two detectives are on the trail of a bizarre murderer intent on slaughtering his victims, then using them as real-life puppets in a tale that he is trying to tell.

Return
69%

Return(en)

1975-09-04

Return is a methodical construction of the approach of an individual towards an unseen goal, which assumes metaphorical significance. Viola moves toward the camera/viewer, pausing every few steps to ring a bell, at which point he is momentarily thrust back to his starting place, and then advanced again. Finally reaching his destination, he is taken through all of the previous stages in a single instant and returned to the source of his journey.

Red
58%

Red(pt)

2003-10-12

The Jurassic Games: Extinction
44%

The Jurassic Games: Extinction(en)

2025-06-24

In this thrilling sequel to The Jurassic Games, 10 death row inmates enter a deadly VR show to battle dinosaurs for a second chance at life. But when the system malfunctions, the carnage turns real. With a new host and higher stakes, survival is no longer just a game.

Bat
69%

Bat(en)

2018-04-24

Since some bird chicks hatched in the neighborhood, the bat hasn't got any sleep.

12
56%

12(ar)

2020-09-04

not there yet

L♡DK: Two Loves Under One Roof
58%

L♡DK: Two Loves Under One Roof(ja)

2019-03-21

Aoi Nishimori and Shūsei Kugayama are in love and they begin to live together secretly. Suddenly, Shūsei's cousin, Reon Kugayama, comes to them. Their secret is discovered by Reon. Now, Aoi, Shūsei, and Reon begin to live together.

Rosalie Goes Shopping
57%

Rosalie Goes Shopping(en)

1989-11-09

Rosalie loves to shop too much to let a little thing like no money stop her. When the local shopkeepers no longer take her bad checks or bad credit cards, she's finds herself out of ways to please her consumerist tendencies… until she discovers The Internet! Master shopper becomes master hacker, and Rosalie is back on top.

Transformer
59%

Transformer(en)

2018-04-27

In the summer of 2015, former US Marine and world record weightlifter Janae Marie Kroczaleski was publicly outed as being transgender. The reaction was universal: her sponsors abandoned her, she was disowned by her parents and banned from competing. This film follows Janae as she attempts to find her place in society. Initially wanting to strip off the muscle and become a much smaller looking woman, she found herself unable to lose the muscle she so desperately gained. She now finds herself living one day as an alpha male and the next day as a delicate girl. Will Janae be able to handle her muscle relapses? Will her passage from being a male bring her the peace she's looking for? Will society accept a 250lbs muscular woman? Is her path personal redemption or physical and psychological disaster?

Death Al Dente: A Gourmet Detective Mystery
69%

Death Al Dente: A Gourmet Detective Mystery(en)

2016-10-09

San Francisco homicide detective Maggie Price and former, world-class chef Henry Ross are on the case once again. The crime-solving odd couple investigates the murder of Henry’s friend, a well-known local chef found dead in his kitchen. As they begin to unravel an old family secret, Maggie has to stay one step ahead of a mysterious man in the shadows who appears to be stalking her, while her blossoming relationship with Henry is threatened by the arrival of an ex-love from Maggie’s past.

Red
56%

Red(en)

1993-01-03

Based on the true story of Louis "Red" Deutsch. A New Jersey bar-owner is plagued with prank phone calls that prompt him to flip into psychotic, profanity-laden rages.

Return
66%

Return(en)

1972-07-15

Static images of an old country house are combined with voices of the past to evocative effect. Haunting and nostalgic, 'Return' conveys the life that exists in old, abandoned places.

Similar Movies

Murder by Death
72%

Murder by Death(en)

1976-06-23

Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.

The Return of Charlie Chan
48%

The Return of Charlie Chan(en)

1973-07-01

Charlie Chan comes out of retirement to investigate a murder case aboard the yacht of a wealthy Greek shipping tycoon.

The Chinese Parrot
0%

The Chinese Parrot(en)

1927-10-23

The plot is motivated by a pearl necklace, which has caused the death and/or ruination of all its owners. The second screen appearance of detective Charlie Chan.

Madam City Hunter
47%

Madam City Hunter(cn)

1993-09-16

A young lady and her father are threatened by a gang named the Five Fingers. Private eye Charlie comes to the rescue.

The Golden Eye
54%

The Golden Eye(en)

1948-08-29

A gold mine in Arizona, that was formerly losing a lot of money, suddenly turns into a veritable money-making machine. However, the owner, instead of being happy about his now profitable business, insists to Charlie that something is fishy and that someone is out to murder him. Charlie and his "crew" travel to the mine, pretending to be tourists staying at a nearby dude ranch so as not to arouse suspicion, and discover that the owner may well be right--it looks like the mine is being used as a cover for criminal activities, and that someone is indeed out to murder him.

Mr. Moto's Gamble
63%

Mr. Moto's Gamble(en)

1938-04-07

Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-blooded murder! Assisted by detective-in-training Lee Chan, Moto sets out to track down the killer based on a single ominous clue: a poisoned boxing glove! But when Moto's hunch points to a corrupt gambling syndicate, he's forced to wager his very life to unmask the culprit—or go down for the count...permanently!

Charlie Chan at the Olympics
67%

Charlie Chan at the Olympics(en)

1937-05-21

Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of Parents and Teachers') pits Charlie Chan against international spies who are using the Berlin Olympic games as the perfect cover...for cold-blooded murder!

Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
52%

Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen(en)

1981-02-13

Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a mysterious series of murders. With his bumbling grandson as his sidekick, Chan also encounters an old nemesis known as the Dragon Queen who is the prime suspect.

Docks of New Orleans
59%

Docks of New Orleans(en)

1948-03-21

Detective Charlie Chan springs into action when top officials of a New Orleans chemical company begin dropping like flies.

Charlie Chan at the Opera
68%

Charlie Chan at the Opera(en)

1936-12-04

A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years ago.

Castle in the Desert
70%

Castle in the Desert(en)

1942-02-02

Charlie Chan, with son Jimmy on a week's pass from the Army, takes up a request for help at a castle-home, miles from anywhere in the American desert south-west and inhabited by an eccentric, reclusive historian and his wife, a descendant of Lucrezia Borgia. Once there, he finds the request's legitimacy denied by all who are present, but still necessary as one houseguest has already been murdered, the other guests are at each other's throat, and the Borgia-related chatelain is suspected...

Dead Men Tell
63%

Dead Men Tell(en)

1941-03-28

When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan must deal with a treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, a recalcitrant sea captain and several suspicious passengers - and a second murder.

Charlie Chan in Rio
62%

Charlie Chan in Rio(en)

1941-09-05

In Rio de Janiero to arrest a nightclub singer on suspicion of a murder in Hawaii, Charlie Chan becomes involved with the Rio police in solving the singer's own murder.

Charlie Chan in the Secret Service
59%

Charlie Chan in the Secret Service(en)

1944-02-14

Charlie Chan is an agent of the US government working in Washington DC and he is assigned to investigate the murder of the inventor of a highly advanced torpedo. Aiding Chan is his overeager but dull-witted son Tommy and his daughter Iris.

Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
64%

Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat(en)

1944-05-20

To solve the murder of a man shot in a locked room, Chan must wade through a Fun House, the writings of an unscrupulous author, and chess pieces.

Black Magic
70%

Black Magic(en)

1944-08-19

Chinese detective Charlie Chan solves a murder linked to the occult.

The Shanghai Cobra
58%

The Shanghai Cobra(en)

1945-09-29

Someone is attempting to steal radium stored in a bank. Death by cobra venom connects a number of murders. Charlie Chan investigates.

The Red Dragon
66%

The Red Dragon(en)

1945-08-01

Chan is faced with suspects in a stolen atomic bomb formula case, that are being killed with bullets that are not fired from a gun.

The Scarlet Clue
59%

The Scarlet Clue(en)

1945-05-11

Chinese sleuth Charlie Chan discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investigating several murders.

The Jade Mask
61%

The Jade Mask(en)

1945-01-26

The latest assignment for respected detective Charlie Chan has come directly from the government and involves the disappearance of a scientist named Harper, who was working on an extremely important serum. When the scientist is killed, Chan must sort through all very likely suspects, including the man's sister and his butler.