Guilty Hands
Mystery... chills... an ending that you'll never guess!
1931 | 69m | English
Popularity: 0.5 (history)
| Director: | W.S. Van Dyke |
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| Writer: | Bayard Veiller |
| Staring: |
| A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé's lover. | |
| Release Date: | Aug 22, 1931 |
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| Director: | W.S. Van Dyke |
| Writer: | Bayard Veiller |
| Genres: | Crime, Drama |
| Keywords | crooked lawyer, womanizer, playboy, murder, last will and testament, pre-code, framed for murder, protective father, shadow on wall, perfect murder, imminent wedding, hasty marriage, crooked district attorney, father and daughter, corrupt district attorney, rigor mortis, mistress of murdered man, remote house, corrupt lawyer, justice from beyond the grave, murdered fiancé |
| Production Companies | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 30, 2026 Entered: Apr 25, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Lionel Barrymore | Richard Grant |
| Kay Francis | Marjorie West |
| Madge Evans | Barbara 'Babs' Grant |
| William Bakewell | Tommy Osgood |
| C. Aubrey Smith | Reverend Hastings |
| Polly Moran | Aunt Maggie |
| Alan Mowbray | Gordon Rich |
| Forrester Harvey | Spencer Wilson |
| Charles Crockett | H.G. Smith |
| Henry A. Barrows | Harvey Scott (as Henry Barrows) |
| Sam McDaniel | Jimmy, a Black Servant (uncredited) |
| Robert McKenzie | Second Man on Train (uncredited) |
| Edmund Mortimer | Party Guest (uncredited) |
| Landers Stevens | Chief of Police Bill Mott (uncredited) |
| Blue Washington | Johnny (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| W.S. Van Dyke | Director |
| Cedric Gibbons | Art Direction |
| Anne Bauchens | Editor |
| Bayard Veiller | Screenstory, Screenplay |
| Merritt B. Gerstad | Director of Photography |
| Al Shenberg | Assistant Director |
| René Hubert | Costume Designer |
| Douglas Shearer | Sound Director |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Hunt Stromberg | Producer |
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| 2024 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 1 |
| 2024 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 3 |
| 2024 | 6 | 5 | 18 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 11 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
| 2025 | 12 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2025 | 1 | 635 | 691 |