Blind Adventure

Blind Adventure is a 1933 American Pre-Code mystery film directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack and starring Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack, Ralph Bellamy, and Roland Young. It was released by RKO Radio Pictures. Plot summary Richard Bruce, a mid-life American businessman, arrives at a London hotel for a vacation. He finds a hotel maid, Elsie, in his room unpacking for him. She offers him some advice about what to wear for dinner at the hotel dining room, where his nervous and clumsy behavior annoys the other guests. After eating in his room, he tries to chat with Elsie, who resists such informality but tells him that he will experience a London foggy night, "a real pea-souper." Going for a walk, he becomes disoriented and asks for directions to the hotel. Coming to a door that resembles the hotel's, he rings and knocks with no answer, but finds the door unlatched and enters what appears to be an upper-class house with a large tapestry by the stairs. No one is immediately present, but he spies someone in an armchair through an open door, who turns out be a man with a bloody head, apparently dead. When Bruce sees a man fleeing outside, he chases after him but loses him. A well-dressed man, who identifies himself as Gerald Fairfax suggests that they go back to the house to call the police. At the house, Bruce and Fairfax find the front door locked, and their knock is answered by a butler. Going in, Bruce confirms that it is the same house when he saw the tapestry, but there is no body in the armchair and the room is occupied by the owners, Major Archer Thorne and his wife Grace. The Thornes are at first annoyed and then amused by the brash American's claims to have seen a body, and they are soon joined by their niece Rose, who was at the theater after having just arrived from Canada. When the Thornes and Fairfax excuse themselves to call the police, Bruce and Rose chat, revealing that she has never met her uncle and aunt before.