The House on 56th Street is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film. The film's plot involves a miscarriage of justice, wrongful conviction and imprisonment, and alienation of a prisoner from her only living relative.
Plot A woman is sent to prison for twenty years for a murder she did not commit. When she is released, her husband is dead, and her daughter has been told Peggy is also dead.
Cast Kay Francis as Peggy Martin Van Tyle aka Peggy Stone Ricardo Cortez as Bill Blaine Gene Raymond as Monte Van Tyle (Monty Van Tyle in the opening credits) John Halliday as Lyndon Fiske Margaret Lindsay as Eleanor Van Tyle Burgess Frank McHugh as Chester Hunt William "Stage" Boyd as Mr. Bonelli (as William Boyd) Hardie Albright as Henry Burgess Sheila Terry as Dolly Phillip Reed as Freddy Walter Walker as Dr. Wyman Nella Walker as Eleanor Van Tyle
Reception According to Warner Bros records, the film earned $410,000 in the U.S. and Canada and $284,000 elsewhere.
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