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Writers:
Frederic Dannay (novel) and
Manfred Lee (novel) ...
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Release Date:
9 October 1935 (USA) more
Tagline:
ELLERY QUEEN'S STRANGEST CASE! (original ad - all caps)
Plot:
Detective Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast

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Donald Cook ... Ellery Queen
Helen Twelvetrees ... Stella Godfrey
Berton Churchill ... Judge Macklin
Frank Sheridan ... Walter Godfrey
Harry Stubbs ... Sheriff Moley
Guy Usher ... Inspector Queen
Huntley Gordon ... David Kummer
Jack La Rue ... Gardner
Betty Blythe ... Mrs. Godfrey
Olaf Hytten ... DuPre
Ruth Gillette ... Laura Constable
Frank Leigh ... Teller, the butler
Barbara Bedford ... Mrs. Munn
George Baxter ... John Marco
Katherine Morrow ... Pitts, the maid
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Runtime:
UK:73 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Certification:
USA:Approved | USA:Passed (National Board of Review)

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3 out of 3 people found the following review useful.
Wow, Follow the Bathing Suit, 10 August 2006
Author: tedg (tedg@FilmsFolded.com) from Virginia Beach

Wow, what fun. You might not like this if you think of detective stories as an excuse to parade a colorful detective. The guy in this case is nearly nothing at all. Flat jokes.

But what a cool mystery! Its a mystery in the old sense, where things happen and you know more than the detective does, just enough to be ahead of him. And you can easily figure it out.

A body is found by the beach at night. In wet swimming trunks not his own, wearing a woman's shawl. Its a remote house and there is inheritance involved. Very typical constraints and model of detecting. Very complex events we have to suss out. Why the trunks? Why the shawl? Another murder and trunks follows.

There isn't a character here that you'll remember. But you'll have fun if you like puzzle-stories.

Ted's Evaluation -- 3 of 3: Worth watching.

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