The Ninth Guest (1934)

Among the more shocking moments of this 1934 horror mystery are scenes showing hysterical characters throwing themselves against the electrified door of the booby-trapped New Orleans apartment they are trapped inside having been lured there with dinner-party invitations but finding themselves not wined and dined but picked off one by one by their mysterious host, a plot that suggests Agatha Christie may have had inspiration for her famous "And Then There Were None."

★★★☆☆

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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

Their daughter is kidnapped when a clay pigeon shooter and her husband in Switzerland learn from a dying man the details of an international intrigue, in this 1934 Alfred Hitchcock thriller with memorable scenes involving a sun-worshipping cult and a heart-pounding dentist appointment.

★★★★☆

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