Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Movie review - Shayne #3 - "Dressed to Kill" (1941) **1/2

Interrupted matrimony was a big feature of the light-hearted Bulldog Drummond films of the 30s, so it's perhaps not surprising the similarly light Michael Shayne films borrowed that device. Shayne is about to marry Mary Beth Hughes when he gets drawn into a murder mystery involving some various actors. Its fast and good natured; the support cast includes Henry Daniell and William Demarest, indicating that the budgets were reasonably healthy (or else the producer was thrifty).

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