CRIME CLUB THRILLER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 51, 2 March 1939, Page 5

CRIME CLUB THRILLER

‘THE LADY IN THE MORGUE’ ATTRACTION FOR THE REGENT THEATRE Film detective fans, who pride themselves on solving screen mysteries before the cinema, detective, will have one of the toughest jobs of their carreer when “The Lady in the Morgue,” another one of the famous Universal Crime Club mysteries, comes to the Regent Theatre on Saturday.

The audience is completely left in doubt until the end about the identity of the real killer, as it was in “The Black Doll,” “The Westland Case” and other Crime Club thrillers, inasmuch as the plot has been woven so carefully as to practically defy solution of the mystery in advance. In addition to the clever plot manipulation, “The Lady in the Morgue” is packed to the hilt with vivid situations, fast action a>nd sardonic humour. Preston Foster heads the cast as “Bill Crane,” private investigator who always gets his man, but who likes to bedevil the official police. Frank Jenks has the role of “Doc Williams,” his wisecracking, rough and ready assistant. ToTn Jackson is “Lieut. Strorrf” and Morgan Wallace is “Inspector Leyman.” Beautiful Patricia Ellis has the role of the mysterious brunette, about whom much of the mystery centres. Others important in the cast are Joseph Downing, Al Hill, James Robbins, Stanley Price, Gordon Hart, Roland Drew, Byron Foulger, Minerva Urecal and Gordon Elliott. The associate feature is the Ritz Brothers in “Life Begins at College.”

Darryl Zanuck has ordered extracts from Henry Stanley’s diary to be incorporated in the script of “Stanley and Livingstone.”

Burgess Meredith is being asked by Warners to appear with James Cagney and John Garfield in “Each Dawn I Die/’