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First tagged "silver screen classics" by bernie "webviator"
More Detail Information tags: women, suspense, film noir, crime and punishment, classic movie, william powell, new york city, mary astor, mystery, silver screen classics, whodunnit, classic mystery
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #446985 in DVD
- Released on: 2011-03-16
- Format: NTSC
- Running time: 73 minutes
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7 of 7 people found a following examination helpful.
Early 1930's Detective Fun
By Bobby Underwood
S.S. Van Dine's Philo Vance has been all though lost today, ostensible too ideal and learned for today's reading audience. The clean-cut investigator was blending to film several times, however. The Kennel Murder Case is by distant a best film instrumentation of a high-brow sleuth. Director Michael Curtiz used that early 1930's soothing concentration demeanour and a well-written and smart book to move Vance to life in a form of William Powell, who valid ideal for a part.
From a opening moments of Vance during a Long Island Kennel Club with his dog, Captain McDavish, this is a grand and breezily paced small mystery. The murder of Hilda Lake's dog escalates into a tellurian murder with lots of suspects. But how was a murder committed, when a plant is found passed in a room sealed from a inside? It's only a form of nonplus in that Philo Vance relishes, so he cancels his vacation journey to lend Detective Heath (Eugene Pallet) a hand.
A immature and really stylish Mary Astor stars as Hilda Lake, with a ancillary expel that includes Helen Vinson, Ralph Morgan, Frank Conroy, and Paul Cavanaugh. James Lee Liang as a prepare spooky with Chinese treasures adds season to this tasty small concoction. Vance has a sealed room nonplus though rather than confining, executive Curtiz manages adequate aptitude and visible touches to equivalent that sketch room feel many early 1930's mysteries had.
Shady business dealings, spurned affections, and profitable Chinese artifacts all play a partial in this parsimonious small mystery. Powell's Vance is uptown, cold as a cucumber, and fun to watch as he's always one step forward of everybody else. In many ways, what creates Van Dine's created characterization of Philo Vance seem so intolerable to some readers today, lends a shade Vance, shabby by William Powell's charm, roughly hip. Vance's resolution to a poser is unique, though a best partial is a fun we have removing there.
This is a good small stormy night poser for those times you're in a sentimental mood. Mystery lovers don't wish to skip this small gem.
1 of 1 people found a following examination helpful.
A classical murder case
By bernie
As with all good murder cases there is some nasty chairman (Archer Coe) that creates everybody he comes in hit wish to murder him. You guessed it he apparently committed self-murder in a "locked" room.
Of march Philo Vance (William Powell) does not trust it and has to uncover a formidable "Who-done-it" and how?
This film is formed on a novel by S.S. Van Dyne. Moreover, even suspicion it has William Powell and Mary Astor, dual obvious actors in it they are not a integrate in a movie.
The behaving is good done. And we will find many of a elements (character portrayal, gimmicks, and subplots) in after movies.
2 of 3 people found a following examination helpful.
A classical murder case
By bernie
As with all good murder cases there is some nasty chairman (Archer Coe) that creates everybody he comes in hit wish to murder him and his small dog too. You guessed it he apparently committed self-murder in a "locked" room.
Of march Philo Vance (William Powell) does not trust it and has to uncover a formidable "Who-done-it" and how?
This film is formed on a novel by S.S. Van Dyne. Moreover, even suspicion it has William Powell and Mary Astor, dual obvious actors in it they are not a integrate in a movie.
The behaving is good done. And we will find many of a elements (character portrayal, gimmicks, and subplots) in after movies.
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