Nonureva Really Surprised!

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

susanctoo This is a cute blend of comedy and mystery as others have said. It is at least as good as a modern TV sitcom. I thought Byron Foulger did a great job as the suspicious character who just might be a bad guy. He is so addled being questioned by the police and so scared of his wife and 5 daughters it makes for a sympathetic and charming hero. The plot slowly bumps along with plenty of red herrings thrown around and more humour stirred in with the stereotyped black elevator operator doing the step and fetch it style humour good for a little chuckle. If hubby who really does not like B and W movies stayed interested, then that is enough to recommend it.

csteidler Byron Foulger stars as Everett Digberry, a mild-mannered wigmaker for theatrical folks who, in the film's opening scene, is picked up by the cops climbing out of a cemetery late at night. Taken downtown, he finds a number of acquaintances in the commissioner's office; all of them, like him, have received mysterious letters demanding money and signed only with a panther's paw print.Sidney Blackmer investigates as police commissioner Thatcher Colt with suavity and humor. He is ably assisted by Ricki Vallin as Anthony Abbot. (Somewhat bizarrely, the original story is also credited to "Anthony Abbot," the pen name of a mystery writer who was not the first to insert "himself" into a story.) The mystery plot holds interest but doesn't create a huge amount of suspense, although it does take a few interesting turns, including one major shift that arguably renders the film's title misleading (but catchy!).I would like to know, having watched these characters spend no little time looking over wigs, if Mr. Digberry is correct when he tells the commissioner, "One wigmaker can usually tell another's knot."

kidboots Adolphe Menjou was perfect as the well dressed detective about town, Thatcher Colt in "The Circus Queen Murder" (1933) (there was also an earlier one, "Night Club Lady" (1932)). Unfortunately, that was it until PRC resurrected the elegant detective in an unusually good "who done it" (for them!!!) with the debonair Sidney Blackmer. PRC may have had the reputation as the cheapest of the cheap but it did produce the occasional interesting movie ie "Baby Face Morgan", "Strange Illusion" and "The Mask of Diijon", even the very intriguingly titled "I Ring Doorbells"!!A man is picked up acting suspiciously in a cemetery, he claims he was delivering a $1,000 as per instructions. When he is taken to the police station it seems he is not the only recipient of a black mail letter - from the Black Panther!!! They are all connected with an opera company and have all had trouble with a bombastic baritone named Lombardi - prima donna Nina Politza has been pestered by him so much she books a ticket to South America!!Oddly, all fingers point to Mr. Digberry!! Yes, it's Byron Foulger!! At his best playing "nervous nelly" characters and I must admit I have never seen him play such a large part before. His nervous librarian in "Quiet Please, Murder" (Sidney Blackmer was also in that) is more what I am used to. He is in the same vein as Johnny Arthur - he even bears a resemblance to him as well!! Having the movie revolve around Foulger added to the suspense - he does have a portable typewriter with a dodgy H and the policeman sees a cat in the flat that could have been used to make the Panther's mark!! The police think he is the blackmailing mastermind who has sent himself a letter to appear like a victim - and the surprise of the movie is that they are right as Mr. Digberry confesses!! He did write the letters so he could use the excuse when his wife found out there was $1,000 missing from their bank account!! He gave the money to Nina, who wasn't as wealthy as everyone believed but when she turns up dead - he doesn't have a very good explanation!!Sidney Blackmer bought polish and class to Thatcher Colt, it is just a pity he was relegated to the sidelines while Foulger took centre stage. And according to literary descriptions, Blackmer was Colt to a T, even though in this movie his lip reading technique, which made the character stand out is not used. Unfortunately, his offsider, instead of being the beautiful and efficient Miss Kelly, was crusty D.A. Bill Dougherty (Herbert Rawlinson).Recommended.

steve050 I was very happy to be able to buy this movie and watch it last weekend. I last saw this movie over 30 years ago. I remember it being good, and I was not disapponted. It has a fairly good mystery, but what makes this movie special is that it's very funny. It has several scenes which I think are classic. The line up scene is hilarious. Byron Foulger gives a great comedic performance.