"A Diabolical Tale Of Mystery And Murder!"
The owner of a large mansion in the country throws a costume party for some of his friends. However, the party turns sour when he is found stabbed to death in a closet. The police and a guest try to discover who committed the murder.
Shirley Grey
Jean Kester
Charles Starrett
Michael Tracy
Claude Gillingwater
Steven Kester
John Wray
Inspector Crofton
William Bakewell
Cliff Miller
Dorothy Revier
Mrs. Pritchard
Stephen Chase
Mr. Victor Pritchard
Ben Hendricks Jr.
Detective Regan
Arthur Clayton
Roger Hall
The owner of a large mansion in the country throws a costume party for some of his friends. However, the party turns sour when he is found stabbed to death in a closet. The police and a guest try to discover who committed the murder.
Do you know what - if the cast had just been a shade better, this could have been really quite a gripping little whodunnit, but neither Shirley Grey ("Jean") nor Charles Starrett ("Michael") really shine as they investigate the brutal murder of their party host, and her grandfather (Claude Gillingwater). Richard Thorpe certainly has plenty to work with adapting Harriette Ashbrook's quickly paced and frequently pithy novel, and the plot does have a few twists that keep us guessing for much of it, but the performances don't really gel and but for a few timely scenes with the charming Dorothy Revier and Aggie Herring & Elmer Ballard as the dead man's gossiping domestic staff, the thing just falls a bit flat. Pity, it's a good story and the production standards are high.
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