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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Ladislas Fodor (play) &
Bernard Merivale (play) ...
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Release Date:
8 March 1941 (USA) more
Plot:
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Master craftsmen made this tiresome mess more (8 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Errol Flynn | ... | Francis Monroe Warren II | |
| Brenda Marshall | ... | Rita Warren | |
| Ralph Bellamy | ... | Dr. R.L. Davis | |
| Alan Hale | ... | Police Insp. Charles M. Mason | |
| Lee Patrick | ... | Blondie White | |
| Allen Jenkins | ... | Mr. Wilfred | |
| Lucile Watson | ... | Mrs. Agatha Archer | |
| William Frawley | ... | Det. 'Hoppy' Hopkins | |
| Roscoe Karns | ... | Monahan | |
| Grant Mitchell | ... | Wellington Carruthers | |
| Maris Wrixon | ... | June Brewster | |
| Noel Madison | ... | Leopold Fissue | |
| Jack La Rue | ... | Ace Vernon (as Jack LaRue) | |
| Turhan Bey | ... | Ahmed | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| George Campeau | ... | Burlesque patron (scenes deleted) | |
| Sol Gorss | ... | Burlesque patron (scenes deleted) | |
| Harry Seymour | ... | Straight Mmn (scenes deleted) | |
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Runtime:
96 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
Finland:K-16 | USA:Approved (PCA #6780)
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The original play called "Katzenzungen" was written by Ladislas Fodor using the pseudonym W. George Selous. It was adapted into English by Bernard Merivale, with additional dialogue by Jeffrey Dell, and produced in London under the title "Blondie White." more
Quotes:
Francis Monroe Warren II:
[as Det. 'Hoppy' Hopkins tries unsuccessfully to break open a door] Try using your head.
Det. 'Hoppy' Hopkins:
Right.
[almost head-butts the door]
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Soundtrack:
The Kiss Waltz more
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By that I mean that the actors are pros, the cinematography is superior, the music is excellent, the opening scene under the credits is neat, the underlying idea is very good - and this mess is like watching someone trying to paint a landscape on a bucking horse. Jamming the mysterioso together with a domestic spat can be heavenly if done right - and I had just watched THE THIN MAN. After watching that film, and then this dog's dinner was painful. And I so wanted it to work!! But how can a film go off in three directions in 96 minutes and still bore us?
To think that the screenwriters were blacklisted because they were Reds almost begs the idea that they ought to have been blacklisted for stirring up this junk.