Murder in the Big House is a prototypical Warners B, directed by B. Reeves «Breezy» Eason, who specialized...
Warner Archive has just released three 1940s titles on DVD I'd never seen before:
Murder in the Big House (1942), Danger Signal (1945), and Hotel Berlin (1945).
Not exact matches
Born on a cotton plantation
in the Deep South, he watched his mother (Mariah Carey) raped and his father (David Banner) brutally
murdered before he was taken inside the
big house by the one of the white women (Vanessa Redgrave) and trained to be a houseboy.
Adapted for the
big screen by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes and Tim Rose Price, the new cinematic version of the tale will roughly follow the book's plot, which finds a
murder happening
in the strange old
house that is home to three generations of the same family.
See, as part of the original father - daughter deal, Nancy got to choose the
house they would live
in, and it happens to be the home of one of the
biggest unsolved cases
in Hollywood: the
murder of actress Dehlia Draycott (Laura Elena Harring)..
As my colleague Laura Miller noted
in her own piece about the Hachette controversy, it wasn't so long ago that the
big New York publishing
houses were screaming bloody
murder about arm - twisting from Barnes & Noble and Borders.