Seven Keys to Baldpate (1929)

There was a jinx on the making of this picture. Laboratories burned, actors had laryngitis and talkie apparatus failed. But the jinx is removed! It's turned out to be a swell evening's entertainment. You experience all the laughs and thrills you had when you read the novel and saw the play and the old silent version. It's great picture material.

Richard Dix, another silent actor to come back in talkies in a big way, plays the author of popular mystery fiction who, to win a bet, spends twenty-four hours in a deserted summer hotel in the dead of winter.

The picture makes no pretensions. It doesn't try to be arty or high-brow. It simply flows along smoothly, pleasantly and entertainingly. And Dick's a hit! All Talkie.

Photoplay February 1930