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Date of Release: February 23, 1934
Running Time: 84 minutes
Director: Edgar Selwyn
Screenplay: Howard Emmett Rogers
Adaptation: Phillip MacDonald
From the novel X vs. Rex - Mystery of the Dead Police by
Martin Porlock (a.k.a. Phillip MacDonald)
Additional Dialogue: Monchkton Hoffe
Cinematography: Oliver T. Marsh
Film Editing: Hugh Wynn
Art Direction: Merrill Pye
Costume Design: Adrian
Recording Director: Douglas Shearer
Producer: Lawrence Wengarten
Interior Decorator: Edwin B. Willis
Assistant Director: Fred M. Wilcox
Note: Also known as The Mystery of Mr. X.; working title The Mystery of the Dead Police; remade as The Hour of 13 (1952).
Robert Montgomery...Nick Revel
Elizabeth Allan...Jane Frensham
Lewis Stone...Superintendant Connor
Ralph Forbes...Sir Christopher Marche
Henry Stephenson...Sir Herbert Frensham
Forrester Harvey...Joseph Horatio Palmer, cab driver
Ivan Simpson...Hutchinson
Leonard Mudie...Mr. X
Alec B. Francis...Judge Malpas
Charles Irwin...Willis, the coroner's assistant
Robert Adair...Policman (uncredited)
Norman Ainsley...Reporter (uncredited)
Barlowe Borland...Headwaiter (uncredited)
Alfred Cross...Reporter (uncredited)
Captain Francis...Reporter (uncredited)
Victor Gammon...Reporter (uncredited)
Douglas Gordon...Court Clerk (uncredited)
Carl Harbord...Policeman (uncredited)
Olaf Hytten...Reporter (uncredited)
Colin Kenny...Constable (uncredited)
Claude King...Cummings (uncredited)
Richard Lancaster...Policman (uncredited)
Raymond Lawrence...Padget (uncredited)
Ray Milland...Forbes (uncredited)
Clive Morgan...Blanchard (uncredited)
Pat Moriarity...Policeman (uncredited)
Henry Mowbray...Detective (uncredited)
John Power...Bobbie (uncredited)
Harrington Reynolds...Motor Cop (uncredited)
Milton Royce...London Bobby (uncredited)
C. Montague Shaw...Doctor (uncredited)
Terry Spencer...Reporter (uncredited)
William Stack...Travers Gordon (uncredited)
Pearl Varvalle...Barmaid (uncredited)
Eric Wilton...Butler (uncredited)
Pat Somerset...(uncredited)
Jewel thief Nick Revel becomes inadvertently involved in the investigation of a series of bizarre police murders. Scotland Yard Superintendent Connor is convinced Nick is the mysterious 'Mr. X' and tries his best to prove it. There really isn't a lot of mystery to the story, but it is a nicely done little suspense picture. Montgomery is both debonair and charmingly flippant as the suave criminal and Elizabeth Allan (not to be confused with Montgomery's wife, Elizabeth Allen) is quite charming as Police Commisioner Frensham's daughter, Jane, the object of Nick's affection.