The Firebird (1934 film)
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| Directed by | William Dieterle |
| Written by |
Charles Kenyon Jeffrey Dell (adaptation) |
| Based on | the play Muvesz Szinhaz by Lajos Zilahy |
| Starring |
Verree Teasdale Ricardo Cortez Lionel Atwill Anita Louise |
| Cinematography | Ernest Haller |
| Edited by | Ralph Dawson |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. / The Vitaphone Corp. |
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74-75 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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.
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."
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