The Canary Murder Case

"Margaret O'Dell" (Louis Brooks) is not a nice person. However, because of her beauty, she has managed to snare a number of men who come to see her perform in theaters under the name "the Canary." To that extent, having compromised several of these men, she has now turned to blackmail in order to satisfy her ambitions. So, when her body is discovered in her hotel room the detective in charge of the case, "Philo Vance" (William Powell) already has a list of suspects to be interrogated. But first he has to sift through the stories that each of these men have concocted in order to hide any motive they may have to keep "the Canary" from singing her song to the wrong person. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that this was a pretty good mystery in spite of the fact that it is 93 years old at the time of this writing. That said, viewers will probably have to make allowances for the film quality. Be that as it may, I enjoyed this film in spite of its dated nature and I have rated it accordingly. Slightly above average.