The Phantom of Crestwood


The Phantom of Crestwood is a 1932 American PreCode murder mystery film released by RKO Radio Pictures, directed by J. Walter Ruben, and starring Ricardo Cortez, Karen Morley, Richard Skeets Gallagher, Anita Louise, H. B. Warner, and Pauline Frederick. Morley plays Jenny Wren, who plans to extort money from various wealthy exlovers, after she lures them to an estate called Crestwood.

Ricardo Cortez as Gary Curtis alias Farnsbarns who is known for being a PI that skirts the law in New York is sent to get some letters from Karen Morley as Jenny Wren who is a courtisan. Jenny Wren tells H. B. Warner as Priam Andes to have some of her former lovers come to a gathering at Crestwood. Jenny Wren at the gathering tells her former lovers that she is leaving but wants money from all of them, she explains that a boy she was trifling with committed suicide. Later that night Jenny Wren is killed. A road washed out keeps everyone at Crestwood. Now Gary Curtis must find out who the murder is before the police arrive and pin it on him.

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