An escaped lunatic, a mysterious swami, and various lovers all have designs on a famous opera singer..

Is this thing worth your time? If you have a soft spot for 1930s B-movies that feel like they were written on the back of a cocktail napkin, sure. Anyone who needs a logical plot or characters who actually act like human beings will probably want to turn it off before the first ten minutes are up. It’s not exactly high...


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Edwin L. Marin

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"Is this thing worth your time? If you have a soft spot for 1930s B-movies that feel like they were written on the back of a cocktail napkin, sure. Anyone who needs a logical plot or characters who actually act like human beings will probably want to turn it off before the first ten minutes are up. It’s not exactly high art, but it’s got a strange, frantic energy that is hard to ignore. The whole thing centers on a famous opera singer who seems to have a target on her back for reasons that are n..."

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Robert T. Shannon, Florence Ryerson, Albert J. Cohen, Edgar Allan Woolf
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Mystery, Crime, Drama


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