Murder on Lenox Avenue

Murder on Lenox Avenue (1941)

* 1/2 (out of 4)

I'd be the biggest liar in the world if I told you that I knew what this movie was about. There seems to be at least four different story lines going on as well as various musical numbers. One subplot deals with a couple men fighting after who knows what. There's another subplot about a girl torn between two men and of course her father wants her to marry the one she doesn't love. Then there's some union propaganda going on to close things out.

MURDER ON LENOX AVENUE has the title and the poster of some sort of crime film but the crime doesn't happen until the closing seconds so I'm pretty sure people in 1941 were probably just as confused by this film as those watching it today would be. Basically this is another extremely low-budget race film that doesn't have too much going for it outside the fact that it might appeal to those who are interested in watching these types of movies.

The biggest problem with this one is that it has all the bad things that most of these movies have. That's the fact that there simply wasn't any sort of budget and very little talent involved. Not only that but you've also got a story-line that makes very little sense and there's no question that it's all over the place in regards to what it's trying to be about. There are a couple interesting music numbers and I'd also say it was interesting seeing the style of clothing that was being worn but outside of that there's not much here.