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The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
Amusing Comic Mystery
8 October 2018 - 2 out of 2 users found this review helpful.
This isn't The Thin Man, but still manages to amuse. A group of shallow socialite young women, led by Barbara Stanwyck, get mixed up in a series of murders. Despite the disdain of both the police and newspaper editor Henry Fonda, the girls do a better job of solving the crime than them. And Fonda and Stanwyck start to fall for each other.
It's formulaic but the performances and dialogue rise above the formula. Hattie McDaniel is the stereotypical maid, but brings a lot of sass and attitude to her role. The script, written by Philip G. Epstein (who will a few years later write the script for Casablanca with his brother Julius), has enough witty dialogue to make it worth a viewing.
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