Or thereabouts. this is just another standard paint-by-numbers murder mystery surrounding the shooting of a blackmailing businessman (Arthur Vinton) which gathers together a group of actors to after suspects, some more believable than the others, but with commissioner Ralph Bellamy finding out that his girl, Valerie Hobson, had dealings with Vinton, he must go out of his way to prove her innocence. That leads him to fashion boutique owner Catherine Doucet (who does nothing but giggle and cluck like a chicken) as he suspects that the killer was wearing one of her designs.
Featured actresses Irene Ware, Helen Jerome Eddy, Kathlyn Williams and Vivienne Oakland are among the females questioned, and they are written with such cliched characterizations that it's obvious that they would just pull a character's name out of the hat to decide who the killer would be.
Of these women, only Eddy as Hobson's companion adds anything interesting, reminding me of characters that Margaret Hamilton played when not portraying witches. The slow pacing and cliched script keeps it from being unique in any way, and this is easily lost in the pile of the dozens of other similar scripts being released by the B units of the time. This is the type of film that you can enjoy for the hour it lasts, but will have a difficult time describing hours after it is over.
Featured actresses Irene Ware, Helen Jerome Eddy, Kathlyn Williams and Vivienne Oakland are among the females questioned, and they are written with such cliched characterizations that it's obvious that they would just pull a character's name out of the hat to decide who the killer would be.
Of these women, only Eddy as Hobson's companion adds anything interesting, reminding me of characters that Margaret Hamilton played when not portraying witches. The slow pacing and cliched script keeps it from being unique in any way, and this is easily lost in the pile of the dozens of other similar scripts being released by the B units of the time. This is the type of film that you can enjoy for the hour it lasts, but will have a difficult time describing hours after it is over.