Karen Morley is a bad woman who has made some money by the feelings she inspires in men. As a result, a lot of people want her dead. Surprisse! Soon after she tells a bunch of them that she's leaving the country with enough money to keep her comfortably for the rest of her life, she is dead, and which among the crowd of people at the isolated house on the cliff by the sea did it?
It's a pretty well writtne movie that began as a radio serial on NBC. There was no episode saying whodunnit; instead, RKO released this movie (the R in RKO and the R in RCA, NBC's parent company, both stood for Radio, and RCA chairman David Sarnoff had a big chunk of RKO stock).
As a movie, it's interesting for the large number of well-known performers who appear in it, and for its liberal use of an interesting variation of the zip cut. The camera pans out, making the image small, then pans to the side at a blurringly fast rate; when it stops, we're looking at another time and place.
It's a technique that fell out of favor in the movies soon afterwards, although it was revived for television in the 1960s.
In any case, it's a good print, a fair mystery, and some interesting visuals. What more do you want in a movie?
It's a pretty well writtne movie that began as a radio serial on NBC. There was no episode saying whodunnit; instead, RKO released this movie (the R in RKO and the R in RCA, NBC's parent company, both stood for Radio, and RCA chairman David Sarnoff had a big chunk of RKO stock).
As a movie, it's interesting for the large number of well-known performers who appear in it, and for its liberal use of an interesting variation of the zip cut. The camera pans out, making the image small, then pans to the side at a blurringly fast rate; when it stops, we're looking at another time and place.
It's a technique that fell out of favor in the movies soon afterwards, although it was revived for television in the 1960s.
In any case, it's a good print, a fair mystery, and some interesting visuals. What more do you want in a movie?