When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.
Eddie Borden
- Jailbird
- (uncredited)
James P. Burtis
- Reporter
- (uncredited)
Spencer Charters
- Teletype Man
- (uncredited)
Ray Cooke
- Photographer
- (uncredited)
Frank Darien
- Lawyer Manley
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAt 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.
- GoofsAt 00:29:00 when Jack Winton says "And who are you?" the boom mic shadow passes over Eugene Pallette's (Sgt. Boggs) hat.
- Quotes
Jack Winton: I'm her brother and I demand the right to see her. You can tell Inspector Donnelly - Lt. Stevens that I'll have their scalps unless they allow me to see Miss Winton at once!
Sgt. Boggs: Oh yeah? What Indian reservation do you come from?
- SoundtracksShuffle Off to Buffalo
(1933) (uncredited)
Music by Harry Warren
Whistled by the policeman as he walks up the stairs
Featured review
Police methods give added interest to routine murder mystery...
GEORGE BRENT doesn't display much enthusiasm for his role as a police detective who finds that his ex-sweetheart (MARGARET LINDSAY) is the chief suspect in the murder of a wealthy playboy. There are several suspects under police grilling and all of them tell their stories in brisk flashback technique that keeps the plot spinning in all directions so that all options are on the table in guessing "who done it." It's a ploy that doesn't work well here. A more straight-forward approach would have worked better in keeping the plot from getting too cluttered. By the time we reach a conclusion, the viewer is left hoping the story is over once and for all. What does work is showing the behind-the-scenes methods the crime labs perform in solving a case.
It's a programmer given what little life it has by a capable cast of Warner supporting players including Ken Murray, Hobart Cavanaugh, Dorothy Burgess, Eugene Palette, Theodore Newton and others and benefits from brisk direction by William Dieterle.
Summing up: A more polished script would have helped and George Brent seems too detached on this occasion to make much of his detective role.
It's a programmer given what little life it has by a capable cast of Warner supporting players including Ken Murray, Hobart Cavanaugh, Dorothy Burgess, Eugene Palette, Theodore Newton and others and benefits from brisk direction by William Dieterle.
Summing up: A more polished script would have helped and George Brent seems too detached on this occasion to make much of his detective role.
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- Doylenf
- Mar 15, 2011
Details
- Runtime1 hour 4 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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