Excitement Abounds in “Half Angel”

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 28, 3 February 1937, Page 11 (Supplement)

Excitement Abounds in “Half Angel”

■TLANCES DEE IN COURTROOM DRAMA (State: Screening To-day.) Laughter freezes on your Ups as mystery mingles with romance and comedy blends with suspense in ••Half Angel,” the Darryl F. anuck production with Frances Dee, Brain Donlevy and Charles Butterworth in the featured roles. Frances Dee is an innocent victim i circumstances who is caught in a tinister web of synthetic clues that twice point to her as a poison murderess. Brian Donlevy, an irrepressible reporter, falls in love with her at first sight and refuses to believe the manufactured evidence. When the jury returns an unexpected verdict of acquittal while she is on trial for the first murder, Donlevy follows Miss Dee, hoping to hear first-hand her life-story. The newly-freed girl departs at once with Helen Westley, a philanthropic woman whose hobby is aiding those in trouble.

Miss Dee goes to Miss Westley’s home, a strange household peopled by a weird assortment of ex-criminals, and Donlevy follows. The reporter climbs a trellis and enters Miss Dee’s room through a window. The terrified girl promises to meet him at the front gate and relate her story to him. Returning to the house, Miss Dee is horrified to find Miss Westley dead and her husband, Henry Stephenson, apparently dying—both of poison. The police immediately arrest the girl again and it appears that she will certainly be convicted. Donlevy, however,. never loses faith in her innocence and in a series of exciting episodes the daring news-hawk unmasks the read murderer.