Hot Picks
|
|
|
A Shriek in the Night
USA 1933
produced by M.H. Hoffman for Allied Pictures
directed by Albert Ray
starring Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot, Harvey Clark, Purnell Pratt, Lillian Harmer, Arthur Hoyt, Louise Beavers, Clarence Wilson, Maurice Black, Jim Farley, Cyril Ring, Tiny Sanford, Dick Rush
story by Kurt Kempler, screenplay by Frances Hyland
review by Mike Haberfelner
|
|
|
|
Available on DVD! To buy, click on link(s) below and help keep this site afloat (commissions earned) |
Always make sure of DVD-compatibility!!!
|
|
|
Related stuff you might want!!!(commissions earned) |
|
|
|
It all starts with a shriek in the night, then someone lies on the
pavement, dead. It might have been an accident, the guy might have fallen
off his balcony, it might have been suicide, but the police suspects
murder, and when it's found out the deceased has had an affair with his
neighbour from below and was actually pushed out of her window, and that
neighbour is found dead as well, that makes the neighbours husband a
tailor-made suspect. And when his dead body is fished out of the river,
the case is considered solved - for everyone but the dead man's secretary
Pat (Ginger Rogers), who's actually an undercover reporter and who knows
her boss had some dealings with underworld boss Martini (Maurice Black),
who just happens to live in the very same apartment building as he did. So
she and her boyfriend, rival reporter Ted (Lyle Talbot) do a bit of
investigating of their own ... only to eventually become Martini's alibi
when another murder happens. Pat has another clue though: Her boos and
Martini put an innocent man on the electric chair once, and that man had a
brother ... What Pat does not know though is that the brother is none
other than the mild-mannered janitor (Harvey Clark), who has helped her
quite a bit in the case, but now that she has come too close to the truth,
he lures her to the basement to burn her alive in the incinerator. It
all ends happily though. Nice low budget murder mystery that's
kept alive mainyl by the antagonistic relationship between Ginger Rogers
and Lyle Talbot (the typcial touple who deosn't know it belongs to one
another) embedded in one of the more interesting whodunnit-plots of its
time's B-cinema. This does not make this film a classic of course, but a
nice watch nevertheless.
|
review © by Mike Haberfelner
|
Feeling lucky? Want to search any of my partnershops yourself for more, better results? (commissions earned) |
The links below will take you just there!!!
|
|
|
Thanks for watching !!!
|
|
|
Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to -
a collection of short stories and mini-plays ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle,
all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to
the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
Out now from Amazon!!! |
|