Seven Keys to Baldpate is a 1929 American pre-Code sound film[3] produced and distributed through RKO Pictures.

[6] In a New York City club, famous novelist William Halliwell "Mac" Magee makes a $5,000 bet with a wealthy friend, Hal Bentley, that he can write a 10,000-word story within 24 hours at the "lonesomest spot on Earth": a summer resort in the winter.

Hal has arranged for the electricity and telephone to work, and the Quimbys light fires in the fireplaces and prepare a room.

They mention that the only other time someone was there in the winter it was crooked politicians who broke in so they could hide a graft payment in the office safe.

Mac overhears him phoning someone and saying that he is going to put the money into the hotel safe and Mayor Cargan, who knows the combination, can collect it.

Mary also believes that Cargan has been accepting graft relating to a transit franchise, and would like to report on that.

The graft payment of $200,000, which Mrs. Norton stole, is recovered—but the police chief decides to steal it himself and flee with his family to Montreal.

In The New York Times, Mordaunt Hall wrote "...it is far more effective than it was as Douglas MacLean's silent picture of three years ago.

In fact, it is an adventure which virtually defies derogatory comments...those who did not see the play will find this audible film quite exciting, with a fair fund of merriment.

"[7] while more recently, critic Leonard Maltin gave the film three out of four stars, noting, "Early talkie moves briskly through its serpentine plot; Dix was never more buoyant.