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Tony (Robert Young) and Carlotta (Constance Cummings) celebrate 6 months of marriage with a lavish party that gets a little wild, and everyone gets roaringly drunk in the process - and the next day, one of the guests, Vic (George Meeker), turns up murdered in his bed. This has his wife Bette (Sally Eilers) in tears and she even attempts suicide - even though she's suspected of having had an affair with Billy (Monroe Owsley). Tony calls a befriended D.A., Harrison (Edward Arnold), to conduct the investigation, and he and his bumbling assistant Maxie (Edward Brophy) try to solve the mystery, but with little success - since everybody at the party was so drunk they can hardly remember anything. So eventually, Tony calld in hypnotist Professor Jones (Gustav von Seyffertitz) to hypnotize them into remembering again, and Jones soon finds out who the killer was - but is shot dead before he can reveal it. A bit on the desparate side, Tony and Carlotta pick up investigations themselves and soon cross paths with gangsters, uncover more dead bodies, get into a kidnapping as well as into an ebezzlement plot, and eventually of course the killer turns out to be the one whom you least expected ...

Now the premise of this movie is really promising, how to solve a murder case when the witnesses can't remember, and it starts out very ok, too, somewhat farcical in tone but stylish in execution, with Robert Young and Constance Cummings making a relatable central couple with good chemistry and sharp dialogue. Unfortunately, about halfway through the film (roughly when the hypnotist is shot), the plot falls through, becomes unnecessarily convoluted and contrived, heaps red herring after red herring upon its mystery, just to be able to conceal the identity of the killer, who has too thin of a backstory to hold up on its own and seems to have been slelected rather at random instead of narratively worked towards. It's still a fun watch, also thanks to its strong ironic undercurrent, but one can't help but feel the film fails to develop to its full potential.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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