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20 November 1932 (USA)
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A police lieutenant and a female reporter investigate a series of murders comitted by a hooded killer in an old dark house. full summary | add synopsis
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Not enough evidence to solve the crime; not enough story for an hour of film
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(Credited cast) | Regis Toomey | ... | Detective-Sergeant Mitchell |
| June Clyde | ... | 'Nosey' Toodles |
| Lucille La Verne | ... | Miss Sheen |
| Jason Robards Sr. | ... | Dr. Bailey (as Jason Robards) |
| William V. Mong | ... | Silas Wayne |
| Eddie Phillips | ... | Claude Wayne |
| Dwight Frye | ... | Robert Wayne |
| Nadine Dore | ... | Gloria Dryden |
| Alan Roscoe | ... | Stephen Boulter |
| Isabel Vecki | ... | Sarah Boulter (as Isabelle Vecki) |
| Harry Myers | ... | Police Officer Ryan |
| Eddy Chandler | ... | Police Sgt. Kelly (as Eddie Chandler) |
| Fred 'Snowflake' Toones | ... | Jeff (as Snowflake) |
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The Wayne Murder Case (USA) (reissue title)
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60 min
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USA:Passed (National Board of Review)
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This movie is a whodunit dressed-up like a mix of Midnight Faces (1926) with The Cat and the Canary (1927).
There is a clever twist to how the murder itself is effected, but unfortunately the story containing it is rather meager; it could have been presented in perhaps 20 minutes, rather than in the hour expended.
As in various other films, an independent investigator whose behavior is plainly illegal is tolerated rather than taken into custody or even expelled. The explanatory device, in this case, is that the officer in charge is in love with her, but credibility is over-stretched.
That officer ultimately solves the case using evidence withheld from the audience while in his possession; that evidence is not particularly surprising, but it also is not sufficiently strong, especially given that the officer had to rely upon testimony as to events at the time of the murder, rather that being himself a witness to it.
Another flaw in this story, common to a great many films of the period, is the presence of a stereotyped black servant -- dim-witted, superstitious, cowardly, and slow-moving except when terrified.