The second in a series of three films based on Jonathan Latimer's great Bill Crane series. The first was THE WESTLAND CASE. More info on my blog, here: davycrockettsa...
There were some hilariously outrageous lines in this movie - right up my alley! "Now wake up and pay attention!" "If you're gonna kiss me, let's get out of the lobby!" Excellent, loved the humor in this movie, thanks for the upload.
More often than not, when screen writers in this era and later, in sitcoms, tried to be clever, the dialogue wound up being nothing more than annoyingly "cutesy" and very contrived. This had genuinely clever and funny dialogue.
@@VictoriaAlfredSmythe At least people back then in the movies kept their clothes on, foul language was kept at a minimum with "heck" or "darn" and the scripts were pretty clean.
The writer missed a chance for a great line. When the dude says "Don't I look like a guy who knows a hearse when I see one?" the P.I. should have said," Only from the inside out." Bazinga!
Thomas E. Jackson (Lieutenant Strom) must have played basically that same character in a million movies -- a dry, sarcastic, sometimes wise-cracking detective. (In "Nancy Drew, Reporter," he was an editor.) He was just perfect for the role.
Based on a novel by Jonathan Latimer who wrote and edited dozens of Perry Mason TV shows from 1960-65. He also wrote several of these Crime Club novels
Almost didn't recognize 'Wild Bill Elliott' (Chauncey) not dressed as a cowboy. He was 34 in this movie, and died at age 61 of lung cancer from those cigarettes he did commercials for.
Plot is a bit goofy, but who cares? A wonderfully entertaining movie, and what a treat to see Barbara Pepper in her prime. A former Ziegfeld Girl, she was a lifelong friend of Lucille Ball who saw to it Barbara always had a job. The last few notes of the opening credit music are that well known theme first used in the Frankenstein films.
WRONG. You're looking at Byron Foulger, who was married to Dorothy Adams and was the father of Rachel Ames. **You're probably thinking of either Johnny Arthur or Charles Halton.
Thank you for this funny, entertaining movie, I gotta say it . It's a smirk a minute.. It's so clever. Oh man. " Who's the musician?". " I don't know any musician" "well that very uncomplementary..I thought the guy was good".. thanks again
Much better than I expected. 19 minutes in the cops are trying to enter a hotel room where all that’s keeping them out is a flimsy chain lock. Funniest thing to seem him bust through the door to remove the chain! 😂
The "Bride of Frankenstein" music in the opening credits. Yeah, it's a Universal Picture, all right. Even though Standard Capital had taken over two years earlier, they were still running on the cheap. But the performances make up for it. Almost screwball film noir.
If anyone was a Red Ryder(Wild Bill Elliott fan) you will be interested to know he was Chauncey Courtland in this movie. I recognized his voice. Even with the mustache I recognized him. I remember my mother loved to watch his western movies.
I got confused with the plot a little but Preston Foster was so compelling - and his "side-kick"'s (a wonderful actor: I'm sorry I didn't get your name in the credits...) interaction with him really carried you along. Lots of great 30's scenes with sleek Thirties style. Again, Preston Foster was renowned for being a great director/screenwriter, but he is now quite renowned for being an actual infiltrator of Hollywood via the Communist Party. - The story for years was that he was one of the "victims of the Blacklist", Hollywood Seven, and all that. Now it turns out that he was bonafide. I think a lot of people jointed "the Party" because after the Depression in the 1890's followed by WWI, and then The Great Depression, there was a huge population of the American masses that were in deep hardship (some still limping along from the Civil War, naturally). The Communist theory of a supposed Utopia was the pull, - until the Social Progressive-ism digs it's heals in and voila - Fascism. - But I suppose many of those early, well-meaning artists believed the Manifesto. . We're seeing it all played out again today. These people planted a lot of seeds. They do that and then their chosen leaders crush them.
You've confused the actor Preston Foster with the director/screen writer Preston Sturges, both favorites of mine. Didn't know about Sturges and the Red Scare era, as you suggest hard to blame people for leaning to the Left during The Great Depression, not exactly a rallying point for Capitalism.
@@jimmypeters Glad you feel that way peter james because it won't be long before this here United States will be there. And you can thank the millions of ignorant people in this Country for not knowing what the hell was going on and even worse, just couldn't make it to the voting polls because they were just too tired or something or other.
Could Sturges (ie, the correct name of the writer/director in question) have been both a communist and a victim of the blacklist? There's a vast difference between being a communist and a traitor. There is nothing in US law that makes being a communist or even an anarchist illegal in and of itself. It's supposed to be a free country with freedom of political thought. They don't arrest people for being Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Green Party, Tea Party and so forth. They let them waste their time voting and delude them into thinking that elections matter. They shouldn't be legally allowed to blacklist them for their political beliefs either, but they did and still do. They just don't do it out in the open now like they did in the height of the Red Scare. .
The whole opening credits are from Franz Waxman’s score from the bride of Frankenstein (which belongs to Universal). They got a lot of usage out of his score. It turned up in many pictures over the years. That way they could save money and not have to pay someone to write a score for a movie.
Brilliant surely one of the complex story written. I still don't get all the details tough 99 percent got it. Well written n acting make alive this well written crepty story with NOT very but extremely cunning nature of human being due to our problem sloving mind to acting in such snecky way no cat can match except ambusing from bush or tree, lepord case, n dedlier hunter is human.
Well that's my second Bill Crane film after The Westland Case and just as enjoyable.Just need to find the third one to complete set,thanks for posting.
It often doesn't pay for one actress to resemble another, more established star, too much. Barbara Pepper was a dead ringer for Jean Harlow, cleft chin and all, who died tragically in 1937. Same setback happened to Dale Evans, whom the studios thought resembled Betty Grable too much (picture Dale blond, and you'll see it, too!). Hedy Lamarr and Joan Bennett managed successfully, even though close in looks, but not all look-alikes do.
An interesting line of thought. I’ve pondered that too. Sometimes the resemblance was perpetrated by the studio (Lizabeth Scott for Lauren Bacall or Martha Huerta for Grace Kelly)
Then there was Tom Dugan and Chick Chandler. Lynn Bari and Ann Savage. Adele Mara and Gloria Grahame. *Watch enough old movies and you'll see a lot of could-be similarity.
I just love Frank Jenks. He is so funny, and his expressions and mannerisms remind me of Bob Hope. I think Bob Hope and Frank Jenks would have made a very funny duo, both comical and hilarious!!!
Frank Jenks was far more skilled than Bob Hope ever was. Hope's performances were heavily scripted, while Jenks was spontaneous and could deliver in rat-a-tat fashion. You can see Bob Hope fumbling while on the old Johnny Carson Show. Carson was also spontaneous, and Hope couldn't handle that.
@@chirelle.alanalooney8609 My father was a commercial artist with some Hollywood connections back in the 1930's, and among the many autographed photos he had (and which I now have) is one from Ned Sparks, signed directly to my father.
So far, this picture, in 1938, is the earliest I've heard Universal Movies Disco Globe Theme & Universal Music, contributed to Composer Frank Skinner, in Universal Movies Credits
When they knew how to create great stories! Now looking for my Uncle's favorite from the 50's "Boston Blackie ?" Any suggestions for good old movies ? (LyndaFayeSmusic@gmail.com) Watch allot of Inspector Morse, Poirot, and Midsomer Murders. Nobody here dead yet! Thanks!
Oh, Poor BABY! You little snowflake, you take offense at everything, don't you? Look at black rioters/looters and 'feminism' today and give everything a second thought.
The William Crane series (by date) Murder in the Madhouse (1935) Headed for a Hearse (1935) filmed 1937 as The Westland Case; Preston Foster as Crane The Lady in the Morgue (1936) filmed 1938 Preston Foster as Crane The Dead Don't Care (1938) filmed 1938 as The Last Warning; Preston Foster as Crane Red Gardenias (1939)
+evanlewis1836 - You need to re-upload this. The interlacing shows that fuzzy lines effect during fast movements. Does your copy actually look like that?
