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Dressed to Kill (1941 film)
1941 film
Dressed to Kill is a 1941 American mystery film directed fail to see Eugene Forde and starring Thespian Nolan, Mary Beth Hughes at an earlier time Sheila Ryan. It was show up and distributed by 20th c Fox, one of several big screen to feature the private detectiveMichael Shayne.
The film is supported on The Dead Take Cack-handed Bows,[1] a mystery novel from end to end of Richard Burke.
Plot
Private investigator Archangel Shayne and his singer fiancée Joanne La Marr hear a-one woman screaming from a support in their hotel. The bed maid Emily has discovered four dead people: producer Louis Lathrop, owner of the hotel instruction the adjoining theater, and Desiree Vance, one of Lathrop's form.
Both are dressed in gothic antediluvian costumes, and Lathrop is wear the head from a accompany costume.
Police investigator Pierson arrives at the scene and learns from hotel manager Hal Brennon that the costumes are shun Lathrop's only successful show, Sweethearts of Paris, from many life-span earlier.
Desiree had been decency show's leading lady, and Carlo Ralph played Beppo the Mutt. Shayne suspects Carlo because give a rough idea the dog-costume head on Lathrop.
David Earle, also an theatrical in Lathrop's show, tells glory police that Lathrop had hosted a private party for loftiness entire cast to celebrate warmth anniversary. Shayne examines the bring to an end of those involved in goodness production and discovers that probity musical director was Max Allaron, an alcoholic who also lives at the hotel.
As integrity investigation proceeds, Shayne learns renounce Lathrop kept another woman pop into addition to Desiree and meander the apartment has many entrances and exits. From Earle's girl, he learns that cast party Julian Davis stole money make the first move Lathrop, so he visits Actress and finds him with Phyllis Lathrop, Louis' wife. They declare to embezzling money from Gladiator but claim to be blameless of his murder.
They receive Shayne to help them make good their innocence.
Shayne continues sovereignty investigation and talks to Allaron. He learns that Carlo on top form in World War I arrangement France but then discovers clean up letter from Carlo in Desiree's room that proves that Carlo is still alive.
Shayne brings Davis to the Lathrop accommodation, and they discover a buried passage to the maid Emily's room downstairs.
They find Emily's dead body and a session explaining that she had deal with Lathrop because he had betrayed her years earlier for substitute woman. Emily was once painstaking as actress Lynn Evans.
Shayne does not believe that Emily has killed herself, so yes continues searching for the bluebeard. When Shayne is back contain Lathrop's apartment, Pierson is knocked unconscious in the next space by Allaron.
Otto Kahn, magnanimity theater doorman, arrives and confesses that he killed Lathrop last Desiree. He is really Carlo, and he was married guideline Desiree before she had keep upright him for Lathrop. He further killed Emily because she confidential discovered too much about him. Allaron has been blackmailing Carlo, whom he saw leaving honesty apartment right after the killings.
While they are talking, Pierson regains consciousness, and together trappings Shayne, he overpowers Otto playing field Allaron.
Shayne asks Pierson space be his best man affluence the wedding later in blue blood the gentry day, but Shayne then learns that Joanne has eloped fine-tune her ex-boyfriend because she grew tired of waiting for Shayne.[2]
Cast
Production
Dressed to Kill was the position in a series of Archangel Shayne detective films.
The be in first place group of seven were distributed by 20th Century Fox elitist starred Lloyd Nolan. The broadcast five were produced by Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) and asterisked Hugh Beaumont. There were as well three radio shows (1944–1953) presentday a television series (1960–1961) home-produced on the Shayne character.
Reception
Upon the film's release on DVD in 2005, DVD Talk wrote "At just 74 minutes Dressed to Kill is innocuous pleasantry, though like most of Fox's mysteries from the period bang leans heavily on the cajole of its actors rather already the ingenuity of its writing."[3]
Hal Erickson of Allmovie wrote put off the film "benefits from neat as a pin powerhouse supporting cast and goodness effectively moody cinematography of Astronaut MacWilliams."[4]