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16 November 1933 (USA) morePlot:
When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates. | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
Criminology
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Murder
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A curio of creaky ciminology moreCast
(Credited cast) | George Brent | ... | Lt. Jim Stevens |
| Margaret Lindsay | ... | Lou Winton |
| Eugene Pallette | ... | Sgt. Buck Boggs |
| Robert Barrat | ... | Anderzian |
| Henry O'Neill | ... | Insp. Donnelly |
 | Hugh Herbert | ... | Manny Wales |
| Dorothy Burgess | ... | Dolly White |
| Theodore Newton | ... | Jack Winton |
| Hobart Cavanaugh | ... | Muggs Manton |
| Ken Murray | ... | Mac |
| Murray Kinnell | ... | Horton |
| Edward Ellis | ... | Dr. Van de Water |
| Kenneth Thomson | ... | Gordon Bates |
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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At about 6½ minutes, the police department uses IBM punch cards and a sorting machine to search a database. This may be the first display of that technology in film. moreFAQ
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As a mystery, From Headquarters isn't very challenging, but it might hold your interest as a behind-the-scenes glimpse of police procedure. The film is at its best when showing the details of a typical murder investigation, including two scenes that prove how little ballistic testing has changed in more than five decades. Another plus is the photography, which generally rises above other programmers of its ilk. [In one set-up, the camera establishes a shot of an autopsy in progress and then takes the vantage of the corpse looking up at the doctors.] There is also a pre-code reference to drug addiction, personified by a murder suspect (Dorothy Burgess) who is a riot of facial ticks, jitters and hysterical laughter. The cast is competant, if largely uninspired, with leads Brent and Lindsay their usual drab selves. Some of the supporting players--Hobart Cavanaugh's non-comic safe cracker, Hugh Herbert's pesky bail bondsman, Edward Ellis's enthusiastic forensics man and Robert Barrat's eccentric rug importer--are decidedly better. Not one of director Dieterle's best, but an interesting curio all the same.