The Thirteenth Guest
あらすじ
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原作・関連書籍
映画化された原作や関連書籍を読んで、映像との違いや独自の世界観を楽しみましょう。
スタッフ・制作会社
監督: Albert Ray
脚本: Frances Hyland / Armitage Trail
制作: M.H. Hoffman
撮影監督: Harry Neumann / Tom Galligan
制作会社: Monogram Pictures
No synopsis available.
映画化された原作や関連書籍を読んで、映像との違いや独自の世界観を楽しみましょう。
監督: Albert Ray
脚本: Frances Hyland / Armitage Trail
制作: M.H. Hoffman
撮影監督: Harry Neumann / Tom Galligan
制作会社: Monogram Pictures
Ginger Rogers ("Lela") and Lyle Talbot ("Winston") work well enough together in this quite enjoyable murder mystery. It all centres around a dinner party that took place (or didn't!) some thirteen years earlier, at which the wealthy host died. It turns out that his fortune has been left to the thirteenth guest, but nobody knows who that actually is/was... Skip forward to present day, and a young woman returns to the house - still bedecked for the ill-fated banquet, only electricity and a telephone have been installed. After a brief altercation with two unknown assailants, she is murdered - or is she? Who is she? The police, led by "Capt. Ryan" (J. Farrell MacDonald) now have to track down the culprits and establish an hitherto unclear motive for all these shenanigans. They start by summoning those who ought to have been at that fateful dinner and with the aid of Talbot (a criminologist) work to get to the bottom of things, in an increasingly dangerous environment for all! As cheap and cheerful thrillers go, it's not bad at all. The eerie big house setting works well in it's favour, the pace is quite effective and there are enough interesting characters - especially the acerbic "Marjorie" (Frances Rich) and an hooded stranger who inhabits the obligatory secret passages, to keep the pot boiling. I could have done with far less of McDonald's annoying comical sidekick "Grump" (Paul Hurst) though even he does manage to raise a laugh at the end. It was probably just the print, but the lighting really needed a bit more radiance too. Worth an hour though...
