Geheimnis des Blauen Zimmers (aka Secret of the Blue Room)

Robert von Hellberg (Theodor Loos) was entertaining three interested suitors for his lovely daughter Irene (Else Ester) at their foreboding ancestral castle. A playful dare that each of them spend a night in a long closed-off room--where three unsolved murders had taken place 20 years earlier--chillingly devolves into disappearances and danger. Expressionistic mystery, remade by Universal the following year, co-stars Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Wolfgang Staudte, Peter Wolff. 73 min. Standard; Soundtrack: German; Subtitles: English. In German with English subtitles.