After a wealthy industrialist threatens to disinherit family and staff at a New Year's Eve party, he is soon found murdered in a nearby phone booth by fellow guest Inspector Queen, who calls... Read allAfter a wealthy industrialist threatens to disinherit family and staff at a New Year's Eve party, he is soon found murdered in a nearby phone booth by fellow guest Inspector Queen, who calls on son Ellery to help unmask the killer.After a wealthy industrialist threatens to disinherit family and staff at a New Year's Eve party, he is soon found murdered in a nearby phone booth by fellow guest Inspector Queen, who calls on son Ellery to help unmask the killer.
- Donald Becker
- (as David F. Doyle)
- Lewis Halliday
- (as Charles Knox Robinson)
- Rawson
- (as Joseph Perry)
- Officer McCoy
- (as Lou Guss)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn the original draft of the script, the killer's name contained seven digits because Ellery deduced that the victim dialed his killer's name on the phone. But this was changed when script researchers realized that in 1947, only *six* digits were required for dialing a phone number and consequently not only was the killer's last name changed to accommodate so were the last names of two other characters exonerated.
- GoofsThe girl photographer is using blue flashbulbs which weren't manufactured until the 1950s.
- Quotes
Ellery Queen: Are you with me? You may even be way ahead of me. Now, it's not that difficult to figure out why Halliday called Kemmelman - a man he never met, a man he never knew. Remember, he had to have known who stabbed him. The knife was wedged in that phone booth, so he couldn't crawl out, and he knew he couldn't talk, so why call the police when he couldn't say anything? So he did the next best thing. Since he didn't have a pencil or a paper, he left us the only clue he could to the murderer's identity. You got the same answer I do?
- kevinolzak
- Jun 6, 2009
Details
- Runtime49 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1