Synopsis
A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
1936 Directed by Errol Taggart
A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
Bruce Cabot Margaret Lindsay Joseph Calleia Stanley Ridges Vivienne Osborne Charley Grapewin Edward Pawley George Lynn Theodore von Eltz Eadie Adams George Zucco Dorothy Kilgallen Raymond Hatton Richard Terry Ernie Alexander Richard Allen Charles Arnt Wade Boteler Sidney Bracey Don Brodie Frank Bruno Joe Caits Jack Cheatham James Conaty Hal Cooke Jack Daley Sayre Dearing Lester Dorr Jack Dougherty Show All…
They sure put effort in making the mystery intricate! Not the same as making it a exciting one though. Wasn't nearly enough emotion there considering it was a family affair and they kept getting killed off. Bruce Cabot wasn't exactly sweeping anyone off their feet as a wisecracking charmer. He's much more effective as a straight no nonsense dude. At least he tried it out.
A relatively rote mystery movie that does a good job of making this have enough vague clues and red herrings that it requires a full explanation at the end to see how this played out and why, because the movie didn't, I don't think, provide adequate information to make sense of it otherwise. The characters also really seem underdeveloped, and so this relies on things like characters telling other characters they care for them or trust them or the like, things that seem suspicious as exposition because they should be getting conveyed with more subtlety but that doesn't occur here.
By far the most notable appearance in this is Dorothy Kilgallen, journalist and panelist on What's my Line, in what…
this wasn't as bad or convoluted as people are making it out to be so maybe i'm just built different? anyway i really liked the pacing on this and the guy playing penny was one of my favorite sympathetic heavies (even tho he doesn't really count, given that he wasn't the antagonist)