The House on 56th Street

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.