The House on 56th Street
The House on 56th Street is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film. The film's plot involves a miscarriage of justice, wrongful conviction and imprisonment, and alienation of a prisoner from her only living relative.
Plot
A woman is sent to prison for twenty years for a murder she did not commit. When she is released, her husband is dead, and her daughter has been told Peggy is also dead.Cast
- Kay Francis as Peggy Martin Van Tyle aka Peggy Stone
- Ricardo Cortez as Bill Blaine
- Gene Raymond as Monte Van Tyle
- John Halliday as Lyndon Fiske
- Margaret Lindsay as Eleanor Van Tyle Burgess
- Frank McHugh as Chester Hunt
- William "Stage" Boyd as Mr. Bonelli
- Hardie Albright as Henry Burgess
- Sheila Terry as Dolly
- Phillip Reed as Freddy
- Walter Walker as Dr. Wyman
- Nella Walker as Eleanor Van Tyle