The Crooked Circle (1932)A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists. Director:H. Bruce Humberstone |
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The Crooked Circle (1932)A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists. Director:H. Bruce Humberstone |
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| Zasu Pitts | ... |
Nora Rafferty
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| James Gleason | ... |
Arthur Crimmer
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Ben Lyon | ... |
Brand Osborne
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Irene Purcell | ... |
Thelma Parker
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C. Henry Gordon | ... |
Yoganda
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Raymond Hatton | ... |
Harmon (The Hermit)
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| Roscoe Karns | ... |
Harry Carter
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Berton Churchill | ... |
Col. Walters
(as Burton Churchill)
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Spencer Charters | ... |
Kinny
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Robert Frazer | ... |
The Stranger
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Ethel Clayton | ... |
Yvonne
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| Frank Reicher | ... |
Rankin
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Christian Rub | ... |
Old Dan
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Tom Kennedy | ... |
Mike, the policeman
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A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists.
The Crooked Circle is a crime organization that meets in a dark room. All the members wear hoods. The group has one female member. They do not like the Sphinx Club, which is a local amateur crime fighting organization that is adding one new member because of the retirement of another. --Okay, if that makes sense so far then the rest of the film will, too.
Over in the old dark house, Zasu Pitts is spooked from the first moment we see her, and that's before the real action of The Crooked Circle has even started. Soon police officer James Gleason arrives, and Zasu spends the remainder of the picture clinging to various pieces of his uniform, much to his annoyance. They make a cute couple.
Other club memberswho all end up assembled at the house, of courseinclude Berton Churchill as a jovial host who thinks it's amusing that the Circle has vowed to kill him; Rosco Karns, who manages a few wisecracks; and C. Henry Gordon as "Yoganda," a mystic of sorts who has just joined the group, claims to have insight to future events, and may or may not be an infiltrator from the other side. Ben Lyon and Irene Purcell are the obligatory handsome young couple who are bothin different waysdeeply involved in the case.
It's totally silly, but plenty of fun.