A whodunit set in a foreboding castle
As Universal’s trademark plane spanning the globe appears on screen and eerie strains of “Swan Lake” play on the soundtrack, the viewer seems set to enjoy a journey into one of the studio’s classic monster flicks. Released during Universal’s Golden Age of Horror, the film about to unfold has many of the genre’s trappings but is more an atmospheric whodunit.<br /><br />“The Secret of the Blue Room” takes place at a dark, remote castle. The owner, Robert von Helldorf (Lionel Atwill, “Son of Frankenstein”), is hosting the 21st birthday celebration for his daughter Irene (Gloria Stuart, “The Invisible Man”). The guests are three eligible suitors, all eager to wed Irene. They are Captain Walter Brink (Paul Lukas), newspaper reporter Frank Faber (Onslow Stevens), and Tommy (William Janney), the youngest.<br /><br />Von Helldorf tells the little party about unexplained incidents ranging from disappearances to murders that occurred in the castle’s blue room twenty years ago, all at precisely 1 A.M. There appeared to have been no forced entry into the upper-floor room; the windows were closed and the door was still locked. The room has been kept locked ever since.<br /><br />Tommy, seeing an opportunity to demonstrate his courage and enhance his standing with Irene, suggests that the three suitors each take a turn staying in the room for one night. He volunteers to go first. Next morning, he has mysteriously vanished, no clues but an open window overlooking the moat surrounding the castle. Did he fall or was he pushed into the moat? Did he drown accidentally? Did he commit suicide?<br /><br />The next night, it’s Frank’s turn to spend a night in the blue room. At exactly 1 A.M. a gunshot rouses the household and Frank is found dead. Commissioner Forster (Edward Arnold) is summoned to figure out what happened and Captain Brink volunteers to spend the next night in the blue room to help discover its secret.<br /><br />Director Kurt Neumann gives the film touches of ominous atmosphere with the establishing shots of the massive castle far removed from the nearest town, and lots of corridors, staircases, and shadowy nooks and crannies. However, he puts the brakes on pacing by having Stuart entertain the guests with a melancholy song that takes a good three minutes and does nothing to enhance the drama or advance the plot.<br /><br />This was the first of Lionel Atwill’s twelve appearances in horror and borderline horror Universal pictures. Atwill delivers a polished performance as a beneficent aristocrat, surprisingly willing to have his daughter’s three suitors gather in one place. Shouldn’t this create tension? Yet all three men are unusually polite and courteous with playful banter and easy, casual conversation.<br /><br />Stuart, only 23 at the time, is quite attractive despite looking older and a bit awkward in ridiculous gowns, particularly one with exaggerated shoulder poufs that look like peculiar, alien plants. She doesn’t exactly fulfill the role of damsel in distress, though she does emit a few good screams.<br /><br />There are a number of convenient coincidences, unanswered questions, and red herrings, and the solution to the mystery will not be hard to figure out well before it’s revealed. But the film is fun and, at just over an hour,  knows how not to overstay its welcome. The finale is exciting and far more cinematic than the rest of the movie.<br /><br />“The Secret of the Blue Room” was among the 52 movies in the original Screen Gems Shock television package of films that ran on late-night TV in the late 1950s.<br /><br />Bonus materials on the unrated, Region A Blu-ray release include an audio commentary and several theatrical trailers.<br /><br />“The Secret of the Blue Room” is a pretty tame pre-Code film, considering the lengths to which other pre-Code films went. It aspires to be more than a mystery and sometimes succeeds, but for the most part simply does not have the thrills and cinematic pizzazz of Universal’s monster pictures.
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Here is a brief synopsis of the title : A deadly secret from the past returns to haunt a young woman and her loved ones in The Secret of the Blue Room. Irene von Helldorf’s twenty-first birthday celebration is eclipsed when her father shares the dark details of his estate’s guest room: twenty years earlier, three people were killed there and their murders remain unsolved. Hoping to prove their own bravery and win Irene’s love, each of her three suitors agrees to spend a night in the room… and a new string of deadly mysteries is set into motion. Lionel Atwill (Doctor X, The Song of Songs), Gloria Stuart (The Kiss Before the Mirror, Titanic), Paul Lukas (The Lady Vanishes, The Ghost Breakers) and Edward Arnold (Easy Living, You Can’t Take It with You) star in this delightfully chilling Pre-Code murder-mystery movie directed by Kurt Neumann (Son of Ali Baba, The Fly)..