The Firebird (1934 film)

The Firebird is a 1934 murder mystery film starring Verree Teasdale, Ricardo Cortez, Lionel Atwill and Anita Louise, and directed by William Dieterle. A philandering Viennese actor is killed. In the murder scene, the camera sees what the killer does, hiding the culprit's identity.^[1]

Cast

• Verree Teasdale as Carola Pointer
• Ricardo Cortez as Herman Brandt
• Lionel Atwill as John Pointer
• Anita Louise as Mariette Pointer
• C. Aubrey Smith as Police Inspector Miller
• Dorothy Tree as Mrs. Jolan Brandt
• Helen Trenholme as Mlle. Josephine Mousquet
• Hobart Cavanaugh as Emile
• Robert Barrat as Halasz
• Hal K. Dawson as Assistant Stage Manager
• Russell Hicks as Mr. Beyer
• Spencer Charters as Max Bauer
• Etienne Girardot as Professor Peterson
• Florence Fair as Thelma
• Nan Grey as Alice von Attem (as Nan Gray)

Reception

The New York Times reviewer, Andre Sennwald, dismissed it as "an ordinary mystery melodrama." "Among the definite failings of this smoothly filmed edition of Lajos Zilahy's play is the circumstance that, like the original, it conceals the actual murderer from the audience for such an extended period that the motivation for the homicide never becomes completely real."^[1]

References

External links

• The Firebird at the Internet Movie Database
• The Firebird at the TCM Movie Database
• The Firebird at AllMovie