The Hole in the Wall

Jean Oliver comes out of prison after a false charge laid by her employer, sets up as a medium called Madame Mystera with a gang behind the curtain, and plans to take the old woman's granddaughter and raise her as a thief. Claudette Colbert in her first talking picture; Edward G. Robinson, the year before Little Caesar, as the gangster called the Fox. Robert Florey directs, and the séance parlour gives him the shadows he liked. Sixty-three minutes of the sound era learning where to put the microphone. Paramount, shot at Astoria, 1929.