The story is that of the mysterious murder of John Argyle, a multi-millionaire, in the library of his home. Circumstances point toward Argyle's adopted daughter Mary, who is the beneficiary under his will, Argyle having quarreled with his son Bruce.
Frederick Chapin, Ralph Ince, Harriet Ford, William J. Burns, Harvey J. O'Higgins
United States
Midnight in the stacks The Argyle Case does not merely open—it detonates. A butler’s shriek ricochets off leather-bound Spinoza and Gibbon; the camera glides past a Tiffany lamp whose stained-glass butterflies seem to flutter against the sudden stench of cordite. John Argyle’s corpse, cravat skewed like a snapped exc...
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" Midnight in the stacks The Argyle Case does not merely open—it detonates. A butler’s shriek ricochets off leather-bound Spinoza and Gibbon; the camera glides past a Tiffany lamp whose stained-glass butterflies seem to flutter against the sudden stench of cordite. John Argyle’s corpse, cravat skewed like a snapped exclamation mark, becomes a still-life of Gilded Age hubris. Director Ralph Ince withholds nothing: we ogle the ruby cufflink half-swallowed in congealing blood, the monocle that hang..."
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