A doctor's ex-wife dies of nicotine poison.A doctor's ex-wife dies of nicotine poison.A doctor's ex-wife dies of nicotine poison.
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Robin Dowell
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Victor Harrington
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- TriviaOne of the main characters is a writer named Eric Blair. "Eric Blair" was the real name of the author who wrote many books under the pen name George Orwell ('1984', 'Animal Farm', 'Down and Out in Paris and London' etc.).
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Tiresome People
Research doctor Ronald Howard and his wife, Mary Laura Wood, are not getting along. Her sister, Olga Edwardes has his affection and Miss Wood bitterly accedes to a divorce... noting, when all is done, that the law prevents them from marrying while she lives. She is pretty shaky, so he gives her a draft of medicine, and she exits.... to stumble in front of a lorry that can't stop.
Now Howard and Miss Edwardes can marry, but a coroner's jury returns a finding of murder, and Howard's research with nicotine fits him for the noose by an uncaring police. Can Miss Edwardes and second lead John Bentley find out whodunnit before they use the gallows?
Charles Saunders directs this second feature in a manner that suggests Hitchcock's REBECCA, without a sense of humor, as the players stiff-upper-lip their ways through disasters of their own making. Worse, in many ways, the solution to the entire mystery element of the movie is presented in an obvious and clumsy manner, leading to a conclusion in which the real murderer is thwarted by the Mrs. Danvers character. Despite these rather stupid and tiresome characters, it's always watchable, but never particularly compelling.
Now Howard and Miss Edwardes can marry, but a coroner's jury returns a finding of murder, and Howard's research with nicotine fits him for the noose by an uncaring police. Can Miss Edwardes and second lead John Bentley find out whodunnit before they use the gallows?
Charles Saunders directs this second feature in a manner that suggests Hitchcock's REBECCA, without a sense of humor, as the players stiff-upper-lip their ways through disasters of their own making. Worse, in many ways, the solution to the entire mystery element of the movie is presented in an obvious and clumsy manner, leading to a conclusion in which the real murderer is thwarted by the Mrs. Danvers character. Despite these rather stupid and tiresome characters, it's always watchable, but never particularly compelling.
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- boblipton
- Dec 1, 2019
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- Runtime58 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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