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The House on 56th Street is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film. The film's plot involves a miscarriage of justice, wrongful conviction and imprisonment, and alienation of a prisoner from her only living relative.

Plot

A woman is sent to prison for twenty years for a murder she did not commit. When she is released, her husband is dead, and her daughter has been told Peggy is also dead.

Cast

Kay Francis as Peggy Martin Van Tyle aka Peggy Stone
Ricardo Cortez as Bill Blaine
Gene Raymond as Monte Van Tyle (Monty Van Tyle in the opening credits)
John Halliday as Lyndon Fiske
Margaret Lindsay as Eleanor Van Tyle Burgess
Frank McHugh as Chester Hunt
William "Stage" Boyd as Mr. Bonelli (as William Boyd)
Hardie Albright as Henry Burgess
Sheila Terry as Dolly
Phillip Reed as Freddy
Walter Walker as Dr. Wyman
Nella Walker as Eleanor Van Tyle

Reception

According to Warner Bros records, the film earned $410,000 in the U.S. and Canada and $284,000 elsewhere.^[1]^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c The House on 56th Street at Kay Francis Films; accessed March 16, 2014. Archived April 5, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
^ ^a ^b ^c Warner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 15 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551

External links

The House on 56th Street at IMDb
The House on 56th Street at the TCM Movie Database
The House on 56th Street at AllMovie
The House on 56th Street at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films

[kay-1] The House on 56th Street at Kay Francis Films; accessed March 16, 2014. Archived April 5, 2014, at the Wayback Machine

[warners-2] Warner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 15 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551

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