Having tried for the umpteenth time to make it through this noisy farce, I could only come to the conclusion that it just isn't any good. Joan Bennett is finally a brunette, and much sexier than she was in her first decade of movie making. She's sassy, sultry and unwilling to take guff from any man, and that is just fine by me. But with a script that never shuts up, the fact that her best days are yet to come, you couldn't tell that from this fizzler.
Reading plot synopsis of this, I still beg to differ that there really was any plot. It's just a series of murders interpolated with loud conversations pretending to be funny and a cast of character favorites that don't seem to know what they are supposed to do.
Poor Adolph Menjou doesn't know when to shut up in most of his movies, and here, he double talks more than ever. Donald Meek plays a pipsqueak newspaper editor with a Napoleon complex that reminds me of the Danny Dr Vito character of Louie from TV's "Taxi". If ever a movie script needed a time out than it would be this one.
Reading plot synopsis of this, I still beg to differ that there really was any plot. It's just a series of murders interpolated with loud conversations pretending to be funny and a cast of character favorites that don't seem to know what they are supposed to do.
Poor Adolph Menjou doesn't know when to shut up in most of his movies, and here, he double talks more than ever. Donald Meek plays a pipsqueak newspaper editor with a Napoleon complex that reminds me of the Danny Dr Vito character of Louie from TV's "Taxi". If ever a movie script needed a time out than it would be this one.