A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.
Thomas E. Jackson
- Strom
- (as Thomas Jackson)
Bill Elliott
- Chauncey Courtland
- (as Gordon Elliott)
Joe Downing
- Steve Collins
- (as Joseph Downing)
Archie Robbins
- Frankie French
- (as James Robbins)
Byron Foulger
- Al Horn
- (uncredited)
Eddie Hall
- Spectator at the Hearing
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaIn 1937, Universal entered into a deal with Crime Club, a publisher of popular pulp mysteries, allowing it to select up to four of its books annually for production as B-pictures. The Crime Club series was produced by Irving Starr. This was the third of eleven novels produced under the deal.
- ConnectionsFollowed by The Last Warning (1938)
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This Bill Crane disappointed me
Regretfully I have to say straight away that I was disappointed in this film. It is the follow-up to 'The Westland Case' in the short-lived Universal Bill Crane detective series. The first film was good so I do admit that I had expectations of this one. And indeed this drew me in at the beginning. But by the time of the early second half of the movie my eyes started to glaze over which is always a bad sign.
A naked woman initially called Alice Ross is found hanged from apparent suicide in the downbeat Darlow Hotel. Colonel Black calls in Bill Crane in on the case but then later he denies that he actually did so. The body is placed in a morgue and a number of interested parties have their own theories who the woman actually was. The body disappears and the morgue keeper is killed by an intruder at the same time.
The identity of the woman keeps changing according to the character who is talking about her. I found it difficult to fathom the relationship these people had to the dead woman at time. The plot became meandering rather than intriguing so the film lost all real mystery for me. By all means try this film because it has a fairly good IMDb rating. And discouraging people from watching B-mysteries from this period is the last thing I want to do but sorry to say I have this one on my DWA (Don't Watch Again) list.
A naked woman initially called Alice Ross is found hanged from apparent suicide in the downbeat Darlow Hotel. Colonel Black calls in Bill Crane in on the case but then later he denies that he actually did so. The body is placed in a morgue and a number of interested parties have their own theories who the woman actually was. The body disappears and the morgue keeper is killed by an intruder at the same time.
The identity of the woman keeps changing according to the character who is talking about her. I found it difficult to fathom the relationship these people had to the dead woman at time. The plot became meandering rather than intriguing so the film lost all real mystery for me. By all means try this film because it has a fairly good IMDb rating. And discouraging people from watching B-mysteries from this period is the last thing I want to do but sorry to say I have this one on my DWA (Don't Watch Again) list.
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- greenbudgie
- Feb 16, 2021
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- The Case of the Missing Blonde
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- Runtime1 hour 7 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was The Lady in the Morgue (1938) officially released in Canada in English?
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