While the Patient Slept

6.4
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Run time: 66 min
  • Premiere: 1935. March 9.

A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.

Discover

Aline MacMahon

Nurse Sarah Keate

Guy Kibbee

Detective Lt. Lance O'Leary

Patricia Ellis

March Federie, Richard's Granddaughter

Hobart Cavanaugh

Eustace Federie

Dorothy Tree

Mittie Federie

Robert Barrat

Adolphe Federie

Helen Flint

Isobel Federie - Adolphe's Wife

Lyle Talbot

Ross Lonergan

Henry O'Neill

Elihu Dimuck

Walter Walker

Richard Federie

Allen Jenkins

Police Sgt. Jim Jackson

Eddie Shubert

Detective Muldoon

Brandon Hurst

Grondal - the Butler

Joseph E. Bernard

'Murph' Murphy - the Ballistics Expert (uncredited)

George Chandler

Evening Bulletin Reporter (uncredited)

Nick Copeland

Detective Davis aka Johnson (uncredited)

Joseph Crehan

Evening Bulletin Editor (uncredited)

Bill Elliott

Bank Teller (uncredited)

Virginia Howell

Kema - the Cook (uncredited)

Milton Kibbee

Evening Bulletin Archivist (uncredited)

Henry Otho

Frank - Detective (uncredited)

John J. Richardson

Reporter (uncredited)

Ferdinand Schumann-Heink

Reporter (uncredited)

Harry Seymour

Photographer (uncredited)

Huey White

Sarah's Taxi Driver (uncredited)

Jack Wise

Reporter (uncredited)

Art

Esdras Hartley

Art Direction

Camera

Arthur Edeson

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Orry-Kelly

Costume Design

Crew

Brown Holmes

Additional Dialogue

Brown Holmes

Additional Writing

Directing

Ray Enright

Director

Editing

Owen Marks

Editor

Sound

Writing

Eugene Solow

Screenplay

Robert N. Lee

Screenplay

Art

Esdras Hartley

Art Direction

Camera

Arthur Edeson

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Orry-Kelly

Costume Design

Crew

Brown Holmes

Additional Dialogue

Brown Holmes

Additional Writing

Directing

Ray Enright

Director

Editing

Owen Marks

Editor

Sound

Writing

Eugene Solow

Screenplay

Robert N. Lee

Screenplay