The Mystery of the Yellow Room | |
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Directed by | Emile Chautard Maurice Tourneur |
Written by | Maurice Tourneur |
Based on | The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux |
Starring | Marcel Simon |
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Distributed by | Eclair |
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Running time | 32 minutes |
Country | France |
Languages | Silent French intertitles |
The Mystery of the Yellow Room (French: Le mystère de la chambre jaune) is a 1913 French silent mystery film directed by Emile Chautard and Maurice Tourneur and starring Marcel Simon as the amateur detective Joseph Rouletabille.[1] It was the first film adaptation of the 1908 novel The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux.[2] Chautard remade the film in the United States in 1919.[3]