The Case of the Frightened Lady

Edgar Wallace thriller about an aristocratic family plagued by murder and hereditary insanity. Marius Goring, Helen Haye, Penelope Dudley Ward. Tilling: Torin Thatcher. Ferraby: Patrick Barr. Studd: Felix Aylmer. Tatty: Ronald Shiner. Directed by George King., A classic British thriller set in a sinister old house, based on a story by Edgar Wallace. (1940), A stage play by the astonishingly prolific Edgar Wallace was the source for the British melodrama Case of the Frightened Lady. The story focuses on the aristocratic Lebanon family, with Dowager Lady Lebanon (Helen Hayes) harboring a Deep Dark Secret. It seems that every generation or so, the Lebanon clan produces a homicidal maniac. The unfortunate candidate this time around seems to be Lord Willis Lebanon (Marius Goring), a fact that the Dowager Lady hopes to hide from the world. Alas, blood will tell and murder will out.