The Great Hotel Murder

Crime novelist Roger Blackwood competes with hotel house detective Andy McCabe in solving a murder by poisoning at a medical convention.

Cast

Edmund Lowe

as Roger Blackwood

Victor McLaglen

as Andrew W. 'Andy' McCabe

Rosemary Ames

as Eleanor Blake

Mary Carlisle

as Olive Temple

Henry O'Neill

as Mr. Claude Harvey

C. Henry Gordon

as Dr. John Mason Temple

William Janney

as Harry Prentice

Charles Cahill Wilson

as Anthony Wilson

John Wray

as Feets Moore

John Qualen

as Ole

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