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5.9/10 • 8

1946-06-071h 22m

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Listen beautiful. This is no parlor game... you are playing with MURDER!

A PI investigates a priest's murder.

Directors
Lothar Mendes
Editors
Gene Havlick

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  1. Lee Bowman

    Lee Bowman

    Gilbert Archer

  2. Marguerite Chapman

    Marguerite Chapman

    Patricia Foster, AKA Laura Browning

  3. Edgar Buchanan

    Edgar Buchanan

    George Bradford

  4. George Macready

    George Macready

    Matthew Stoker

  5. Lee Patrick

    Lee Patrick

    Susan

  6. Jonathan Hale

    Jonathan Hale

    Captain Griffin

  7. Elisabeth Risdon

    Elisabeth Risdon

    Catherine Walsh

  8. J. Edward Bromberg

    J. Edward Bromberg

    Ernst Helms

  9. Miles Mander

    Miles Mander

    Dr. Marko

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CinemaSerf

Jun 1, 2024

6/10

This is really all about the last ten minutes as we quite entertainingly finish off this otherwise unremarkable drama. "Gilbert" (Lee Bowman) is a red-top journalist who loves nothing more than a good old dose of salacious rumour-mongering. His life takes a more serious turn when his friend is murdered. The man was a priest, and the mystery deepens when we discover that his two bibles are being sought by the menacing "Stoker" (George Macready). Why? Well one of them contains a code that will lead to the secret hiding place of a priceless Da Vinci painting. The police suspect that maybe "Pat" aka "Laura" (Marguerite Chapman) is somehow involved, so she and our gossip-pedlar join forces hoping to find it (and some romance) first, or at least to stay alive! It's a bit better than your standard afternoon feature this and that's almost entirely down to the sparingly featured Macready and to Edgar Buchanan's contributions as "Bradford" - and I did quite like the carefully choreographed cellar-denouement. Nope, you'll never remember it, and it could probably lose twenty minutes of waffly preamble, but it's not bad.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
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Keywords
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