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- Richard DixWilliam Halliwell Magee
- Miriam SeegarMary Norton
- Margaret LivingstonMyra Thornhill
- Lucien LittlefieldThomas Hayden
- Joseph Allen Sr.Peters, the Hermit
- DeWitt JenningsMayor Jim Cargan
- Nella WalkerMrs. Irene Rhodes
- Carleton MacyPolice Chief Kennedy
- Alan RoscoeBland
- Crauford KentHal Bentley
- Harry ClarkElijah Quimby
- Edith YorkeMrs. Quimby
Seven Keys to Baldpate: Directed by Lew Landers. With Phillip Terry, Jacqueline White, Eduardo Ciannelli, Margaret Lindsay. A mystery writer gets caught up in a real mystery when he accepts a bet to write a book at Baldpate, a remote inn.
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- Mystery, Romance, Thriller
- Lew Landers
- 1947-06-05
Seven Keys to Baldpate is a 1947 American mystery film directed by Lew Landers and starring Phillip Terry, Jacqueline White and Eduardo Ciannelli. It is the sixth film based on the popular 1913 play of the same name .
Seven Keys to Baldpate is a 1913 play by George M. Cohan based on a novel by Earl Derr Biggers. The dramatization was one of Cohan's most innovative plays. It baffled some audiences and critics but became a hit, running for nearly a year in New York, another year in Chicago and receiving later revivals; Cohan starred in the 1935 revival.
- Earl Derr Biggers
- 1913
When mystery writer Kenneth Magee disembarks at the Asquewan Junction train station during a driving blizzard, attractive Mary Jordan warns him not to go to Baldpate Inn, where he is planning to write his latest book. Ignoring Mary's advice, Magee, who has wagered Bentley, Baldpate's owner, $5,000 that he can write a mystery in twenty-four ...
- Lew Landers, James Casey
- Phillip Terry
Writer Kenneth Magee has bet that he can finish a story at rural resort Baldpate Inn, now closed for the winter. The owner has given him the "only" key to the front door. But there are six other keys, and peculiar characters, some of them up to no good, keep turning up as the mystery deepens.
Seven Keys to Baldpate: Directed by Hugh Ford. With George M. Cohan, Anna Q. Nilsson, Hedda Hopper, Corene Uzzell. A writer bets a friend that he can write a 10,000-word novel in 24 hours.
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As the evening wears on, the inn becomes the rendezvous for several mysterious characters--all of whom have keys of their own--and the site of a startling murder. Terry tries to figure out the goings-on, but just when he's put the clues together, the lock in the door clicks.