The Patient in Room 18 (film)

The Patient in Room 18
Directed byBobby Connolly
Crane Wilbur
Written byEugene Solow
Robertson White
Joseph Santley (uncredited)
Produced byBryan Foy
StarringPatric Knowles
Ann Sheridan
CinematographyJames Van Trees
Edited byLouis Hesse
Music byBernhard Kaun
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • January 8, 1938 (1938-01-08)
Running time
59 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Patient in Room 18 is a 1938 American mystery romantic comedy film directed by Bobby Connolly and Crane Wilbur. It stars Patric Knowles and Ann Sheridan. The screenplay written by Eugene Solow and Robertson White was based on a 1929 novel of the same name by author Mignon G. Eberhart.

In the film, a private detective is hospitalized after suffering a nervous breakdown. In the hospital, a wealthy patient and the head doctor are both murdered, and valuable medicinal radium is stolen. The detective has to solve the murder mystery.