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The House Without a Key
80%
Movie
3h 30m
AI Analysis
The House Without a Key (1926) — AI movie analysis
WatchMind AI generated this AI analysis of The House Without a Key (1926) — a movie tagged as Action, Adventure, and Crime with cerebral, tense, and epic moods and steady pacing.
Story & themes: A Pathe serial in ten chapters of two-reels each: Dan Winterslip, a wealthy man in Honolulu, has not spoken to his brother, who owns a hotel next to Winterslip's estate, in over twenty years. Minerva, sister to the estranged brothers, comes from Boston to try to reconcile the two men. John Quincy Winterslip, Dan's n… Our models also surface themes such as ai from synopsis and genre signals.
Watch context: Best suited for date night and solo focused viewing. Expect steady storytelling (~210 min).
Community signal: TMDb members rate The House Without a Key 80% (1 votes) — strong audience scores for this movie.
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TMDb audience score
80%
from 1 TMDb votes
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Synopsis
A Pathe serial in ten chapters of two-reels each: Dan Winterslip, a wealthy man in Honolulu, has not spoken to his brother, who owns a hotel next to Winterslip's estate, in over twenty years. Minerva, sister to the estranged brothers, comes from Boston to try to reconcile the two men. John Quincy Winterslip, Dan's nephew, receives a letter instructing him to retrieve a box from an attic in San Francisco and dump the contents into the ocean. He is on board a ship bound for Hawaii in which other passengers are also after the box. Dan Winterslip is murdered. Charlie Chan, a Chinese detective, offers to help solve the killing and the mysteries surround the box. Chan is looking for the person whose wristwatch is missing the number 'three.'
Quick facts
- Type
- Movie
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- 1926-11-21
- Runtime
- 3h 30m
- TMDB rating
- 8.0
- TMDB ID
- 540707
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What is The House Without a Key about?
A Pathe serial in ten chapters of two-reels each: Dan Winterslip, a wealthy man in Honolulu, has not spoken to his brother, who owns a hotel next to Winterslip's estate, in over twenty years. Miner... This is the official synopsis available via TMDb community metadata.
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How long is the movie The House Without a Key?
The official runtime for The House Without a Key is approximately 210 minutes.
Cast & crew
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Directors & writers
Cast
Allene Ray
Carry Egan
Walter Miller
John Quincy Winterclip
E.H. Calvert
Dan Winterclip
- B
Betty Caldwell
Barbara Winterclip
- J
John Webb Dillion
Amos Winterslip
- N
Natalie Warfield
Minerva Winterclip
Jack Pratt
James Egan
William Bailey
Harry Jennison
Frank Lackteen
Kaohla
George Kuwa
Charlie Chan
Harry Semels
Saladine
Charles West
Bowker
John Cossar
District Attorney
Scott Seaton
Detective Hallett
- C
Cliff Saum
Kennedy
Toshia Mori
The Young Chinese Girl (uncredited)
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