At the Villa Rose (novel)
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At the Villa Rose is a 1910 detective novel by British writer A.E.W. Mason featuring his character Inspector Hanaud
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starring Manora Thew
and then in further versions in 1930
starring Austin Trevor
and in 1940
when the title role was played by Kenneth Kent
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Inspector Hanaud
Inspector Gabriel Hanaud is a fictional French policeman depicted in a series of novels and short stories by the British writer A. E. W. Mason. He has been described as the "first major fiction police detective of the Twentieth Century"....
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Film Adaptations
The story has been adapted three times for the screen, first in a 1920 silent versionAt the Villa Rose (1920 film)
At the Villa Rose is a 1920 British silent detective film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Manora Thew and Langhorn Burton. It is based on the 1910 novel At the Villa Rose by AEW Mason. Two other film adaptations, both in sound, were made in 1930 and 1940....
starring Manora Thew
Manora Thew
-Selected filmography:* Arsene Lupin * His Daughter's Dilemma * Not Negotiable * The Splendid Folly * The Toilers * At the Villa Rose * A Romance of Old Baghdad...
and then in further versions in 1930
At the Villa Rose (1930 film)
At the Villa Rose is a 1930 British Mystery film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Norah Baring, Richard Cooper and Austin Trevor. It marked the screen debut of Northern Irish actor Trevor.-Production:...
starring Austin Trevor
Austin Trevor
Austin Trevor was a Belfast born actor who had a long career in British films and television.He was the first actor to play Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot on screen in three British films during the early 1930s: Alibi , Black Coffee and Lord Edgware Dies...
and in 1940
At the Villa Rose (1940 film)
At the Villa Rose is a 1940 British detective film directed by Walter Summers and based on the novel At the Villa Rose by A.E.W. Mason featuring the French detective Inspector Hanaud. The film is also known as House of Mystery...
when the title role was played by Kenneth Kent
Kenneth Kent
Kenneth Kent , sometimes Keneth Kent, was an English actor. Most notable for portraying the emperor Napoleon in the 1948 film Idol of Paris, he also appeared in the war films Dangerous Moonlight and Night Train to Munich .-External links:...
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