Kind Lady
Prisoner in her own home!
1935 | 76m | English
Popularity: 0.2 (history)
| Director: | George B. Seitz |
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| Writer: | Hugh Walpole, Bernard Schubert, Lucien Hubbard |
| Staring: |
| Mary, a woman with good intentions, takes pity on Henry, an artist with no home. What begins as a simple offer to come inside from the cold for tea gradually turns into more. Before the unsuspecting woman knows it, Henry, his family, and his friends con their way into her home. Eventually, Mary creates a ruse to rid herself of the parasites, but they have a different plan. | |
| Release Date: | Dec 06, 1935 |
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| Director: | George B. Seitz |
| Writer: | Hugh Walpole, Bernard Schubert, Lucien Hubbard |
| Genres: | Drama, Crime, Thriller |
| Keywords | art collector, greed, artist, deception, crook, con artist, murder, betrayal, extortion, art thief, home invasion, art theft, damsel in distress, captivity, christmas, abused wife, christmas eve, art collection, home intrusion |
| Production Companies | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 (Update) Entered: Apr 25, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Aline MacMahon | Mary Herries |
| Basil Rathbone | Henry Abbott |
| Mary Carlisle | Phyllis |
| Frank Albertson | Peter Santard |
| Dudley Digges | Mr. Edwards |
| Doris Lloyd | Lucy Weston |
| Nola Luxford | Rose, Mary's Maid |
| Murray Kinnell | Doctor |
| Eily Malyon | Mrs. Edwards |
| Justine Chase | Ada Abbott |
| Barbara Shields | Aggie Edwards |
| Donald Meek | Mr. Foster |
| Frank Reicher | Gustave Roubet (as Frank Reigher) |
| Jimmy Aubrey | Soapbox Orator (uncredited) |
| E. E. Clive | Grammaphone Man (uncredited) |
| Charles Coleman | Doorman (uncredited) |
| Elspeth Dudgeon | Lady Emily (uncredited) |
| Colin Kenny | Second Scotland Yard Man (uncredited) |
| Wilfred Lucas | First Scotland Yard Man (uncredited) |
| Milton Owen | Servant (uncredited) |
| Tempe Pigott | Flower Woman (uncredited) |
| C. Montague Shaw | Passport Clerk (uncredited) |
| Yorke Sherwood | Mr. Pritchett, a Policeman (uncredited) |
| Larry Steers | Lucy's Friend (uncredited) |
| Joseph R. Tozer | Constable (uncredited) |
| Walter Ware | Man (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| George B. Seitz | Director |
| Hugh Walpole | Story |
| Douglas Shearer | Recording Supervision |
| Cedric Gibbons | Art Direction |
| Edwin B. Willis | Assistant Art Director |
| Bernard Schubert | Screenplay |
| Edward Chodorov | Theatre Play |
| Edward Ward | Original Music Composer |
| Dolly Tree | Costumer |
| George J. Folsey | Director of Photography |
| Hugh Wynn | Editor |
| Eddie Imazu | Assistant Art Director |
| Lucien Hubbard | Writer |
| Wayne Allen | Orchestrator |
| Paul Marquardt | Orchestrator |
| Charles Maxwell | Orchestrator |
| Clifford Vaughan | Orchestrator |
| Jack Virgil | Orchestrator |
| Carl Roup | Script Supervisor |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Lucien Hubbard | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
| Year | Month | Avg | Max | Min |
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| 2024 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 1 |
| 2024 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 2 |
| 2024 | 6 | 6 | 19 | 2 |
| 2024 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 2 |
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| 2024 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
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| 2024 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
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This all starts with something really incongruous. Snowy scenes and a violin-led score that makes you think of some Capra-esque Christmas film about redemption and the sight of Basil Rathbone is a big thick coat! Something isn't right here! The eponymous lady - "Mrs. Herries" (Aline MacMahon) arrive ... s at her home to encounter the homeless "Abbott" (Rathbone) doing some street art in the snow. She takes pity on this charming and unassuming gent, and asks him in for a cup of tea. Next thing we know, her cook has gone, her maid "Rose" (Nola Luxford) is threatening to leave and her house is now over-run by a rather menacing group of people who are content to live in her home and who clearly have far more nefarious intentions. They effectively imprison the woman and things look bleak. Only a glimmer of hope emerges in the form of her tenacious nephew "Peter" (Frank Albertson) who smells a rat. I don't suppose there is great deal of jeopardy here, but Rathbone is at his intimidating, most duplicitous, best and the supporting cast - especially Lily Malyon's "Mrs. Edwards" and Dudley Digges as her husband - work well to build up quite an effective sense of tension over the last hour or so of this drama. It is certainly not what I was expecting - or what the title suggests, and is certainly worth a watch.