This claims to be a who-dunnit caper, but so far there isn't a murder to be solved. We're ten minutes in, and it seems to be a husband and wife detective agency (George Murphy, Carol Landis), with a side-kick lawyer (OBrien). The wife keeps goofing things up by mistake, so it's trying so hard to be a comedy. and of course they get caught up in a real murder; they duck into a magic act where the assistant disappears, and suddenly they find a trunk which may or may not have a dead body in it. Something is missing here... the script or direction needed tightening up or something. no magic between the actors. A funny bit where everyone keeps giving someone medication, which knocks her out! Lots of slapstick comedy. It DOES get better as it goes along. Still pretty un-even, though. Funny in some places, then just awkward timing. It's okay. Has some laughs. Meh. This wasn't anyone's best film. Directed by Ed Sutherland, who had directed W.C. Fields in TONS of films. This was also one of his last films... he did mostly TV after this.
Review of Having Wonderful Crime
