THE LITTLE PICTURE HOUSE
1930 · Crime melodrama · USA · English · Black & white
About the film
Mary Gray and her fiancé elope to Atlantic City, where a jewel thief slips stolen pearls into her handbag. After a shootout, a chambermaid named Clara helps Mary escape. But Clara has ties to the gang, and the pearls are still missing.
A wedding trip gives way to a crime story in which Mary has to decide whom she can trust. Natalie Moorhead’s Clara is right at the centre of that uncertainty.
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Cast
Mary Astor — Mary Gray
Lloyd Hughes — Blaine
Paul Hurst — Daly
David Newell — Dick Mercer
Natalie Moorhead — Clara
Edgar Norton — Williams
Francis McDonald — Barney
Production credits
Director: Donald Crisp
Adaptation and dialogue: Jane Murfin
Photography: Leo Tover
Editing: Archie Marshek
Production: RKO Productions
Behind the scenes
Released on 4 May 1930, this was Donald Crisp’s final film as director and his only sound film in that role. It was adapted from the stage play Cooking Her Goose.
Source: AFI Catalog — The Runaway Bride (1930).
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