''Green Eyes'' is a 1934 American

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Chesterfield Pictures Chesterfield Motion Picture Corporation, generally shortened to Chesterfield Pictures, was an American film production company of the 1920s and 1930s. The company head was George R. Batcheller, and the company worked in tandem with its sister stu ...

film directed by Richard Thorpe.

Plot

During a masked party Stephen Kester (

Claude Gillingwater Claude Benton Gillingwater (August 2, 1870 – November 1, 1939) was an American stage and screen actor. He first appeared on the stage then in more than 90 films between 1918 and 1939, including the Academy Award-nominated ''A Tale of Two ...

) is found dead in the closet of his room, three stab wounds in his back. Suspicion falls on everyone at the party, especially Kester's granddaughter Jean (

Shirley Grey Shirley Grey (born Agnes Zetterstrand; April 11, 1902 – August 12, 1981) was an American actress. She appeared in more than 40 films between 1930 and 1935. Biography Born in Naugatuck, Connecticut, Grey was the daughter of E. A Zetterstr ...

) and her fiancé Cliff Miller (

William Bakewell William Bakewell (May 2, 1908 – April 15, 1993) was an American actor who achieved his greatest fame as one of the leading juvenile performers of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Early years Bakewell was a native of Los Angeles, where he at ...

), who fled the house after disabling all of the other cars and cutting the phone lines. As Inspector Crofton ( John Wray) and Detective Regan (Ben Hendricks Jr.) investigate they are shadowed and helped along by a mystery writer, Bill Tracy (

Charles Starrett Charles Robert Starrett (March 28, 1903 – March 22, 1986) was an American actor, best known for his starring role in the ''Durango Kid'' westerns. Starrett still holds the record for starring in the longest series of theatrical features: ...

Cast

as Jean Kester *

as Bill Tracy *

as Stephen Kester * John Wray as Inspector Crofton *

as Cliff Miller *

Dorothy Revier Dorothy Revier (born Doris Valerga; April 18, 1904 – November 19, 1993) was an American actress. Early years Born as Doris Valerga in San Francisco on April 18, 1904, Revier was one of five siblings of the famous Valerga performing fami ...

as Mrs. Pritchard *Ben Hendricks Jr. as Detective Regan *Alden Chase as Mr. Pritchard * Arthur Clayton as Roger Hall * Aggie Herring as Dora, housekeeper for the Kesters * Edward Keane as Raynor *

Edward Le Saint Edward LeSaint (January 1, 1871 – September 10, 1940) was an American stage and film actor and director whose career began in the silent era. He acted in over 300 films and directed more than 90. He was sometimes credited as Edward J. Le Sa ...

as Banker * Robert Frazer as Broker

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* * * 1934 films 1934 mystery films American black-and-white films American mystery films Chesterfield Pictures films 1930s English-language films Films based on American novels Films based on mystery novels Films directed by Richard Thorpe 1930s American films {{mystery-film-stub