The House on 56th Street

68-69 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$211,000^[1][2]Box office$694,000^[2][1]

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

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