A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.
Thomas E. Jackson
- Strom
- (as Thomas Jackson)
Bill Elliott
- Chauncey Courtland
- (as Gordon Elliott)
Joe Downing
- Steve Collins
- (as Joseph Downing)
Archie Robbins
- Frankie French
- (as James Robbins)
Byron Foulger
- Al Horn
- (uncredited)
Eddie Hall
- Spectator at the Hearing
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaIn 1937, Universal entered into a deal with Crime Club, a publisher of popular pulp mysteries, allowing it to select up to four of its books annually for production as B-pictures. The Crime Club series was produced by Irving Starr. This was the third of eleven novels produced under the deal.
- ConnectionsFollowed by The Last Warning (1938)
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fast-paced B mystery
Part of the Crime Club series, and based on an original by Jonathan Latimer, this nifty little mystery is often cited as a model of 30s B-movie adeptness. It was directed by the unjustly forgotten Otis Garrett (who died young), a former editor who uses flash-pan edits and other visual tricks to maintain a breakneck pace -- so fast that it's pretty difficult to follow the complex plot. Although a bit too reliant on dialog scenes, there are enough effective wisecracks, bizarre demimonde characters (shifty undertakers, dour taxi drivers, carefree taxi dancers) and risqué asides (apparently, the production code enforcers often neglected these low budgeters) to raise the quality well above the norm. One side benefit is an appearance by a young Barbara Pepper, sassy and sardonic as ever, but surprisingly lithe and seductive. Soon-to-be-famous Stanley Cortez provided the cinematography.
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- Jan 24, 2004
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- The Case of the Missing Blonde
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- Runtime1 hour 7 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was The Lady in the Morgue (1938) officially released in Canada in English?
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