Tomorrow at Seven

19331933
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1h 2m

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5.7/10

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Allen Jenkins, Frank McHugh, Chester Morris, and Vivienne Osborne in Tomorrow at Seven (1933)

Comedy Crime Drama

People in an old, dark mansion are menaced by a maniac called "The Black Ace."People in an old, dark mansion are menaced by a maniac called "The Black Ace."People in an old, dark mansion are menaced by a maniac called "The Black Ace."

IMDb RATING

5.7/10

330

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

67,137

20,861

Director
- Ray Enright
Writer
- Ralph Spence(original screenplay and dialogue)
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Chester Morris and Vivienne Osborne in Tomorrow at Seven (1933)

Allen Jenkins, Frank McHugh, Grant Mitchell, Chester Morris, Vivienne Osborne, and Henry Stephenson in Tomorrow at Seven (1933)

Charles Middleton, Chester Morris, Vivienne Osborne, and Henry Stephenson in Tomorrow at Seven (1933)

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The earliest documented telecasts of this film took place in New York City 2/4/48 on WCBS (Channel 2), in Salt Lake City 10/6/48 on KDYL (Channel 4), in San Francisco 4/13/49 on KPIX (Channel 5), and in Los Angeles 1/21/50 on KECA (Channel 7).

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Clancy: What's up, Mr. Drake?
Thornton Drake: You of course know this 'Black Ace.'
Clancy: Oh, sure. We *just* missed catching him about 6 months ago.
Dugan: Sure, we trapped one of his earwiggers. It was like this: I'm wise this guy blatts out for stoolin'. So I'm crowdin' him wit' the heater but he don't belch. I know he's an alky stiff so I start feedin' him the dynamite when Clancy walks in wit' this guy's twist. She's all full o' happy dust and leapin'. He calls for a blizzard so we let 'er have it, figgerin' on the beef, see? She don't open up on the Black Ace, but she spills enough on this earwigger to get him fried in New York last September.
Thornton Drake: What's he talking about?
Clancy: [to Dugan] How many times have I gotta tell ya? These guys don't understand them technical terms!
[to Drake]
Clancy: What he's tryin' to say is this: We buttoned one o' the Black Ace's spies who dropped a dim. He's sweatin' the guy with a rod, but it's no dice. But he remembers that the guy's a stew! So he starts givin' him a jolt now and then. Just then I breezes in with the guy's moll. She's a snowbird. So I gives her a sniff of the gold dust and she opens up on the guy. Last September they gave him the hot squat. That's what he's tryin' to tell ya.
Neil Broderick: [to Dugan] You were a little vague.
Dugan: [offended] Who's a vag?

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5/10

Murderer leaves a calling card

A good cast enlivens this rather routine closed circle of suspects murder done by RKO. Chester Morris over from MGM stars in this film, as a rather cocky crime novelist out to solve some real crimes. Over at Warner Brothers James Cagney would have fit this part better than O.J. Simpson fit that glove.

Morris is on the trail of a killer known as 'the Black Ace' who leaves an ace of spades at each of his crime scenes daring the police to catch him. Morris is following a lead concerning millionaire Henry Stephenson and on the way he meets up with Vivienne Osborne who is the daughter of Stephenson's private secretary Grant Mitchell.

When Stephenson gets a calling card they all decide to fly to his bayou plantation including a couple of Chicago cops played by Frank McHugh and Allen Jenkins. As they are about to land Mitchell is murdered when the lights go out.

Things might have been solved faster if the law wasn't in the persons of McHugh and Jenkins. These two geniuses couldn't catch a cold they must have had influence at City Hall to have been made detectives. But they are a great deal responsible for a lot laughs in this film. Political influence wasn't exactly unknown in Chicago.

This probably would have been done with more style at Warner Brothers, still this is an entertaining mystery with more laughs than usual thanks to McHugh and Jenkins.

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