Members of a wealthy family start getting threatening letters, and it's not long before the threats turn into reality and family members start getting bumped off. The family lawyer is a former newspaper reporter, and since the family patriarch owns a newspaper, the lawyer uses his investigative experience and the newspaper's resources to dig into the family history to see if he can uncover the person behind the killings.
Is it worth your time? If you like those snappy, black-and-white mysteries where everyone is wealthy and everyone is hiding something, you’ll dig this. It’s got that classic 1930s vibe—plenty of cigarettes, fast talk, and people getting bumped off in rooms with heavy curtains. If you hate movies where the plot moves fa...
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Errol Taggart
Robert Thornby
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"Is it worth your time? If you like those snappy, black-and-white mysteries where everyone is wealthy and everyone is hiding something, you’ll dig this. It’s got that classic 1930s vibe—plenty of cigarettes, fast talk, and people getting bumped off in rooms with heavy curtains. If you hate movies where the plot moves faster than the character development, you’ll probably find this one a bit thin. It’s a B-movie, through and through. But honestly? That’s part of the charm. It doesn't pretend to be..."
Richard Allen
Whitman Chambers, Leonard Lee, Walter Wise
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