Bearing no relation to the Sherlock Holmes 1945 outing of the same title, and actually being a little mistitled itself (shouldn't it be "Theater of Fear"?), "House of Fear" (1939) is a minor if well-plotted whodunit, a remake of a 1928 silent film called "Last Warning" (which I have not seen). It begins well, with a murder (?) during a radio show that turns out to be part of a stage play (the radio show, not the murder), it stalls midway through as it seems no progress in the investigation is being made, but there are some good stunts at the end, and an amusing turn by the little-known Dorothy Arnold as the "easiest study in town" (wink, wink). **1/2 out of 4.
Review of The House of Fear
