The Ninth Guest, sometimes abbreviated as The 9th Guest, is a 1934 American pre-Code murder mystery film directed by Roy William Neill and starring Donald Cook and Genevieve Tobin.
The film is an adaptation of the 1930 Broadway play The Ninth Guest by Owen Davis, which in turn is based on the 1930 novel, The Invisible Host, by Bruce Manning and Gwen Bristow. The book, play and film all predate Agatha Christie's extremely successful 1939 novel And Then There Were None, which has a similar plot.
Plot
Eight guests at a deadly party are informed by the voice of their unknown host from the radio that they are his enemies, and will all meet his ninth guest: Death.
Cast
Donald Cook as James Daley
Genevieve Tobin as Jean Trent
Hardie Albright as Henry Abbott
Edward Ellis as Tim Cronin
Edwin Maxwell as Jason Osgood
Helen Flint as Sylvia Inglesby
Samuel Hinds as Dr. Murray Reid
Nella Walker as Margaret Chisholm
Vince Barnett as Butler (Jones) Sidney Bracey as Butler (Hawkins; credited as Sidney Bracy)