The Thirteenth Guest

Thirteen years after a dinner party in which the thirteenth guest failed to arrive, the remaining guests are being murdered one by one, and their bodies being placed at the same dinner table in the appropriate seats they occupied thirteen years prior.

Cast

Ginger Rogers

as Lela / Marie Morgan

Lyle Talbot

as Phil Winston

J. Farrell MacDonald

as Captain Ryan

Paul Hurst

as Detective Grump

Erville Alderson

as John Adams

Ethel Wales

as Jane Thornton

James Eagles

as Bud Morgan

Crauford Kent

as Dr. Sherwood

Eddie Phillips

as Thor Jensen

Frances Rich

as Marjorie Thornton

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Ginger Rogers ("Lela") and Lyle Talbot ("Winston") work well enough together in this quite enjoyable murder mystery. It all centres around a dinner party that took place (or didn't!) some thirteen years earlier, at which the wealthy host died. It turns out that his fortune has been left to the thirt...

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