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Honeymooning in Hungary, Joan and Peter Allison share their train compartment with Dr. Vitus Verdegast, a courtly but tragic man who is returning to the remains of the town he defended before becoming a prisoner of war for fifteen years. When their hotel-bound bus crashes in a mountain storm and Joan is injured, the travellers seek refuge in the home, built fortress-like upon the site of a bloody battlefield, of famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig. There, cat-phobic Verdegast learns his wife's fate, grieves for his lost daughter, and must play a game of chess for Allison's life.

Genre(s) : [Comedy

Actors :
Basil Rathbone Montague Hartley
Hugh Herbert Mr Penny
Broderick Crawford A Gilmore Smith
Bela Lugosi Eduardo Vidos
Anne Gwynne Elaine Winslow
Gladys Cooper Myrna Hartley
Gale Sondergaard Abigail Doone
Cecilia Loftus Henrietta Winslow
Claire Dodd Margaret Gordon
John Eldredge Stanley Borden
Alan Ladd Richard Hartley
Erville Alderson Doctor Williams (uncredited)
Harry C Bradley Coroner (uncredited)
Jack Cheatham 1st Moving Man (uncredited)
Edgar Sherrod Minister (uncredited)