THE STRAND
“THE MAN UPSTAIRS” Every girl likes to put the man she is going to marry through some kind of a test, but few resort to staging a few murders for his benefit. Yet that is exactly what Marian Larnard, played by Dorothy Devore, did for Geoffrey West (Monte Blue), in “The Man Upstairs,” Monte’s latest feature for Warner Bros., which is now at the Strand. “The Man Upstairs” is one of the best mystery comedy-dramas shown upon the screen in many a day. It is packed in thrilling episodes that nearly always end in a laugh, yet joined together in such a way as to create a ripping story until the last final flicker of film. The story written by Earl Derr Biggers tells of a young man and woman who meet via the “agony” or “personal” column of a metropolitan newspaper. In order to put him to the test of the things he professes to her, she stages a few things for his benefit. Some are real and some are not. But to distinguish these is the difficult part, and that is left for the audience to discover until every detail is explained in the last scenes. The picture from beginning to end will have you sitting right on the edge of your seat. Monte gives one of his best performances, and Dorothy never looked more lovely.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 71, 15 June 1927, Page 15
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