Diagonaldi Very well executed

GetPapa Far from Perfect, Far from Terrible

Ceticultsot Beautiful, moving film.

DipitySkillful an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

Uriah43 This film begins with the sound of a man screaming as he is falling from a high-rise building to his death. It turns out that the man is a millionaire living in a penthouse and the police aren't sure if his death was due to an accident, suicide or murder. However, three weeks prior to his death he had hired a new secretary by the name of "Ms. Terry" (Ginger Rogers). At least that is what he thought. It subsequently turns out that she is a reporter by the name of "Pat Morgan" and she is working for the "Morning News". Her reason for masquerading as his secretary was to investigate whether this millionaire had underworld dealings with a mobster by the name of "Josephus Martini" (Maurice Black). Unfortunately, she accidentally gives the scoop to her rival "Ted Kord" (Lyle Talbot) who works for the "Daily Express". She is subsequently fired but it just so happens that there is much more to the case than either Pat or Ted realize at the time. Anyway, rather than divulging any more of the story I will just say that this was a decent little film that was probably rather good for its time (1933). It had an intriguing plot with a good measure of both comedy and mystery thrown in. On the other hand, the lighting was really bad and I thought that the script was a bit arcane and abrupt as well. In any case, this is clearly a grade-B movie which was only made watchable by the presence of Ginger Rogers who puts in a decent performance all things considered. Overall, I rate it as average.

dbdumonteil Mainly interesting for Ginger Rodgers ' presence:she plays a journalist who becomes a young Miss Marple to investigate a dark case which features suicide (?) ,drowning,murders .It's a strange mixture of whodunit (the culprit ,for once,is not easy to guess ) of gangsters and of journalists vying for scoops (poor Rodgers gets fired because of one of her colleagues' cheap trick).Made on a shoestring budget (there are three or four rooms in the whole movie), the only way they use to create fear is the dark,and it always works ,mainly during the last scenes.The cards with the snake are quite Doylesque .So is the way the murderer does away with his victims.

kidboots Ginger Rogers made lots of movies when she was just starting out. But for every "42nd Street" (1933) or "The Gay Divorcée" (1934) there was a "Broadway Bad" (1933) or a "Hat Check Girl" (1932). From the start she was determined to be noticed and by very hard work and a cute personality - she was!!!Ginger and Lyle Talbot make a cute team as rival reporters trying to get the scoop on a would-be suicide. They actually dated in real life, so I read.A scream (or yell) is heard, a body falls to the pavement and so this comedy mystery begins. Ginger plays Pat Morgan, Mr. Harker's (the dead man) live-in secretary. She is really a reporter put in as a plant to find out if Harker was really a phlanthrophist or an under- world figure. Lillian Harmer provides some laboured comedy relief as Mr. Harker's maid.More bodies turn up - Mrs. Colby, in the apartment that Mr. Harker met his death -and Mr. Colby is also found dead. The janitor (Harvey Clark) is acting suspicious - continually cutting the power supply to the different apartments so he can snoop around. Maurice Black, who often played ethnic types, is the gangster Martini. Arthur Hoyt plays Wilfred, the chief detective's right hand man, who is the butt of much of the humour. Louise Beavers has a small part as the Colby's maid.It is all explained in the end but not before Ginger almost ends up in a fiery grave.

dbborroughs This is a pseudo-sequel to the 13the Guest which starred Ginger Rogers and Lyle Talbot, who star here.It begins with a body falling off the building and hitting the pavement... we see it hit the pavement. What follows is a series of murders in and around an apartment building, some of which is rather dark for what we think of as a 1930's mystery, but then again its pre-code so some of whats said is more than a little blue.I can't believe this is the follow up to The 13th Guest since Ginger is so stiff and much of her performance consists of smoking. She smokes a lot here and its almost pathological. Yes she has a great deal of screen time and is the lead but the role isn't well written.Yes the dialog is snappy and the mystery interesting but at times it feels too long even at 66 minutes. Its the fact that at times the events double back on themselves, I think because the budget was low.Does that mean its a bad movie, no, its not. Its quite good but The 13th Guest is better. If you can get them as a pair or get this with something else then by all means do so, but don't get this on its own, unless you get it for about five bucks or the cost of a rental.