"Having Wonderful Crime" has energy and wit (best lines: the one in my summary, and "Alright, alright, dehydrate the conversation!") but also an air of over-familiarity about it, despite the rather unusual synthesis of the team of amateur sleuths (a couple on their honeymoon and their skirt-chasing lawyer friend whom they always get into trouble). The plot struggles, and barely succeeds, to keep our interest, but the three leads (none of them a major movie star in their own right) do click together; this is one of the last movies Carole Landis made before committing suicide, and it's hard to believe that she was already suffering from chronic depression, given how joyful and bright she seems to be in this role. I don't know if a sequel to this movie might have saved her, but it probably could have helped her tremendously. **1/2 out of 4.
Review of Having Wonderful Crime
