@@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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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! 😂
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
Using music from "Bride of Frankenstein" in the credits. Standard Capital may have dispatched Carl Laemmle, but they're still the very frugal Universal.
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.
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.
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.
Nice to go back in time ...better than the garbage of today. Thank-you
you are so right about that
there was a ton of garbage back then also & there are some fine movies today
@@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.
Well said anything comes out these days are nothing but garbage
One very entertaining Crime Club film, with lots of nice twists, turns and dialogue. Thanks for posting this!!
That was a good movie,do not mind seeing again at another time,thanks.
wish they'd clean up these 8 CRIME CLUB films and issue them in dvd package
I'LL GO ALONG WITH THAT, and I'd be willing to buy the whole set.
I'd guess that you can't expect too much in the way of cleaning them up, but I'd watch a boxed set😊
The Nero Wolfe Mysteries were good too.
I c they lynching black people
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.
Good detective story. Nothing like the good old stories. Thanks for sharing! ❤️👍 👏.
Great movie I love those old movies thank you for posting
First rate. Unusually crisp dialogue.
Preston Foster had good diction.
Lovin these old black and white movies!! I hardly watch my tv lately lol!!
When my cable contract expired, I quit cable altogether. Nothing on but junk. Saved me $$ each month. Only watch free B&W movies like this.
When I see a B&W movie or show, I gravitate towards it right away because I know it's good!
It's always a joy to watch a Barbara Pepper movie.
"I'm sending you over to the morgue."
"Think they'll take me?" 😄
very good film -- thank you for putting it up here
entertaining flick! Very much enjoyed, thank you for posting this!
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.
He also did a great job as a sarcastic police inspector.
...Wow, this is great!...Please keep them coming!
you have the most unique collection of cowboy songs I've ever seen. Salute
That movie is a load of wise-cracking fun!
Cute movie
Preston Foster is always fun to watch. Thanks for the upload.
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What a great flick. Going to have to search to see if the same chemistry is portrayed in any others. I've never seen "hung over" played so nicely :)
lot of witty lines. loveing this
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
Thanks for the movie… Hope you post more like this movie…Movies were great in the. Early Days of Hollywood..
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.
What is the 3rd one?
@@11froglegs The Last Warning.
@@11froglegs just to add it’s been a year and I have not been able to find it.
The part of Kay Renshaw is played by Barbara Pepper, Green Acres' Doris Ziffel.
She was hot stuff in her younger years.
@@leelarson107 Really ??.. She has the same birthday as Soap opera actors Robin Strand And Christopher Holder !!
Fun Crime Club movie. Thanks, appreciate these uploads now very much. :)
You will be amazed at your playlist from you tube after watching these genres...very helpful
I am mesmerized by how the cab zooms off a milli second after the door closes .such a giggle. and fast too. and the dance scene with Doc. cool!
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
Lot's of fun to watch. Really good movie.
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! 😂
and it wasn't much of a door, was it? (lol)
I know that was hilarious 😂
Enjoyed the clever dialogue. Thank you for sharing!
A good 🎥 in a clear print 😀👋
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.
When I was a kid in the early 1950's, I was the only one in the gang who knew who 'Wild Bill Elliott' was.
Loved it!
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.
I checked out your blog and loved it. Nice posters from this film which I'm watching right now. . I am now subscribed!
Lady who owned Arnold the pig in Green Acres tv show was in this movie..What a beauty she was too.
The opening credits music was taken from Universal's own The Bride of Frankenstein!
I noticed that too!. I lol!!
@@kennnethmitchell7650 Have you seen the Buck Rogers serials? Same thing.
Excellent print, Excellent film.
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.
I couldn't agree more re: Barbara Pepper. And I, too, noticed the Frankenstein music.
What ''plot''?
OMG. The opening music is that of "Bride of Frankenstein" !!
"Don't sleep in the morgue ... they will bury you too"
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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.
@@leelarson107 That's why Frank Jenks is so spontaneously funny, that is why I love the guy!
@@leelarson107 You should check out Ned Sparks, and his voice is really wild. I love that too, and he's really funny.
@@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.
@@leelarson107 Oh Ned Sparks was another funny guy the way he talked was hilarious. I just loved him.
any of you musicians out there - or folks with a musical ear - notice the simliar sounds in the opening music to Superman theme sound?
"You know me I can sleep anywhere"! Lolol
Great character actors! Enjoyed it!
That Guy at the desk in the morgue was Spanky McFarlands father on the original “our gang” comedy AKA little rascals
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.
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!
HA HA!
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
These old movies have introduced me to Preston Foster and I love him!
Great movie!!! Thank you!!
Very good film, lots of fun twists.
Love Frank Jenks, have seen in in quite a few movies
Preston Foster was one of the great actors of that era and if no one has ever seen Impact watch it, always good as usual💫
Impact was Brian Donlevy.
Great film really entertaining good laugh as well I don’t make them like they used to
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Preston Foster is fun to watch in action and the girls are really good looking .
A good suspense story .
ya know I am finding these , some of these movies are pretty fu&#ing good, almost no production cost, and lots of intrigue and good audience focus
I love old black and white movies
THE PRIVATE EYE ALSO PLAYS PHILLIP MARLOW IN OTHER MOVIES.
The end of that intro music was also used in the Frankenstein movie, not the first time i've noticed old movies do that.
Boy, that lead character owned a lot of shirts!
Calling car 126, car 1 2 6. "That's us!" They were sharp back then.
Shows you what a doughnuts-and-coffee diet will do for you.
Pretty reasonable hotel rate, $3/night, even if it is a fleabag, at about 15:34.
1938=almost $60 today, according to The Inflation Calculator.
my feel good movies for corona lockdown
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.
@@MyMy-zi7yv "This here United States"? LOL Southern are you?
His sidekicks name is FRANK JENKS !!!!!!!
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. .
Frank Jenks, (musician, bandleader, actor), who plays 'Doc Williams' here, appeared as 'Sinkewicz' in 'Christmas In Connecticut'.
I think the opening score sounds a bit like the Frankenstein movie theme.
IT IS!
@@thomasgansevoort929 TY!!!
What sort of mortuary allows people to just wander around in it?
Very good, thank you! Ron PTL USA
Wonderful
Thanks for the upload !! "The Dollar Hotel" !! 😂😂
In the beginning when they list the cast, there's a snippet of music from The Bride of Frankenstein! 😄
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.
Darn good movie with Preston Foster and Red Ryder.
Thoroughly enjoyed this crime/comedy.
Note the use of the film score from Bride Of Frankenstein in the intro credits.
Using music from "Bride of Frankenstein" in the credits. Standard Capital may have dispatched Carl Laemmle, but they're still the very frugal Universal.
Any more "Crime Club" movies? They are great.
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)
Sorry about the autocorrect (Martha Hyer)
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.
NOBODY looks like Heddy !
Watch her in ALGIERS..
So good
Classic!!
That was an awesome movie. I wonder if there's a sequel to it
One of the more complicated 'who dun it' movies I've ever watched- no exaggeration.
Wow good one-🎉🎊❤️❣️💥
Never saw Patricia Ellis in a movie when she wasn't a blonde, she is beautiful either way!
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.
I really like this movie! It’s definitely my genre.
Very much amazed and amusing story
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.
Very interesting movie... definitely not what you think it would be, quite amusing.
great
👍 very good 😊
Pretty good thanks.
Hoooooo boy. That scene in the hotel room with the elevator man has not aged very well. That is uncomfortable on so many levels.
I'm surprised they had that in the movie!😮
It was way more uncomfortable for the elevator man I bet.
I hear the Frankenstein music at the opening credits.
So good I Iove crime comedy thrillers and besides" I won't let any harm come to you sweetheart"
This was a really good movie 👍
it's exactly the same soundtrack from bride of frankenstein
It's been used in a lot of films. Keeps expenses down.
If I had my way Franz Waxman's bride score would be in every movie.
You will enjoy The Westland Case.
good movie
The actors are so laid back,🌈 in their acting
That all disappeared with Political Correctness, quota systems, 'woke' ideology, and Critical Race Theory.
Pres and Frank have great chemistry.