While the Patient Slept (1935)

Directors

Ray Enright

Cast

Aline MacMahon, Allen Jenkins, Brandon Hurst, Dorothy Tree, Guy Kibbee, Helen Flint, Henry O'Neill, Hobart Cavanaugh, Lyle Talbot, Robert Barrat, Russell Hicks, Walter Walker

The story

A comedic murder mystery involving a nurse who is assigned to the at-home care of a man who recently had a stroke. While he is unconscious, on a dark and stormy night, a murder takes place in his bedroom. With family members and potential heirs confined to the house for several days, additional murders occur while the nurse and a police detective work on solving the case.

Genres

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