
Vantine moves in with his daughter Lorna (Day) and maid and retains the elderly butler to help take care of the house. Polis) has finished moving into the same house where the 1889 murder occurred.įor years the house had one occupant: the butler (Alister). The setting then moves to 1929, just as an antiques dealer Philip Vantine (John St. The story starts with a prologue set in 1889 in which we see an angry husband murdering his wife's lover. The film was based on the play of the same title by Eleanor Belmont and Harriet Ford, which itself was derived from the book The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet by Burton E. The movie stars Jack Mulhall and Alice Day.

In The Next Room is a 1930 American pre-Code mystery film released by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros.
