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Mystery of the White Room (1939) Facts
| Director(s) | Otis Garrett |
| Producer(s) | Irving Starr |
| Featured Cast | Bruce Cabot, Helen Mack, Joan Woodbury, Tom Dugan, Frank Reicher |
| Total Facts | 4 |
8th entry in Universal's Crime Club Productions series. In 1937, Universal had entered into a deal with the pulp publisher to select up to 4 of it's novels annually for production as B-pictures. Producer Irving Starr was selected to head this unit. This entry, based on the novel, "Murder in Surgery," was the 8th out of a total of 11 Crime Club novels the studio produced under the deal.
Part of the original SHOCK THEATER package of 52 Universal titles released to television in 1957, followed a year later with SON OF SHOCK, which added 21 more features.
Shooting began Feb. 2, 1939, released a month later, on Mar. 17.
The Crime Club novel, "Murder in Surgery" was written by Dr. James G. Edwards, M.D.