A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.
Thomas E. Jackson
- Strom
- (as Thomas Jackson)
Bill Elliott
- Chauncey Courtland
- (as Gordon Elliott)
Joe Downing
- Steve Collins
- (as Joseph Downing)
Archie Robbins
- Frankie French
- (as James Robbins)
Byron Foulger
- Al Horn
- (uncredited)
Eddie Hall
- Spectator at the Hearing
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaIn 1937, Universal entered into a deal with Crime Club, a publisher of popular pulp mysteries, allowing it to select up to four of its books annually for production as B-pictures. The Crime Club series was produced by Irving Starr. This was the third of eleven novels produced under the deal.
- ConnectionsFollowed by The Last Warning (1938)
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That's how fast the movie unfolds. I think I followed the plot well enough to understand what happened, but I'm not sure. As near as I can tell, there was one unresolved murder, but it didn't affect the story one way or the other. It was also never explained how Preston Foster could be a suspect in one of the murders - he was a detective trying to solve it, after all. I guess it was to inject some humor and make the Police Dept. look comical. Never understood why 30's movie audiences bought the premise of mixing comedy into murder mysteries. To me they're like oil and water.
There are lots of unexplained bits of trivia, coincidences and non-sequiturs, too many to mention here, but that kind of thing devalues the storyline and serves only to break the viewers concentration - and with this picture one needs all of one's concentration. The cast was serviceable, especially Preston Foster as the hero, and it was fun to see Bill Elliott before he became a cowboy star. But the break-neck pace makes me think I should see it again, to catch what I missed the first time - so my rating is a holding grade. I'll get back to you.
There are lots of unexplained bits of trivia, coincidences and non-sequiturs, too many to mention here, but that kind of thing devalues the storyline and serves only to break the viewers concentration - and with this picture one needs all of one's concentration. The cast was serviceable, especially Preston Foster as the hero, and it was fun to see Bill Elliott before he became a cowboy star. But the break-neck pace makes me think I should see it again, to catch what I missed the first time - so my rating is a holding grade. I'll get back to you.
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- Feb 26, 2013
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- The Case of the Missing Blonde
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- Runtime1 hour 7 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was The Lady in the Morgue (1938) officially released in Canada in English?
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