Good acting with good script.

I'm not that old, and I can say with all certainty that these films ARE indeed better than the movies of today.

It's not 102 minutes, it's 62 minutes.

I'm not old and I can say older movies are 10x better. Most stuff past the 90s = garbage

@@derekblattenberger2878 Most stuff in any era is garbage. There were plenty of lousy movies being made in the 1930s as well. To invoke Theodore Sturgeon's useful rule, 90 percent of everything is crap.

In 1937, Universal Pictures made a deal with Crime Club and were granted the right to select four of their yearly published novels to adapt into films. Eleven films were made in the series between 1937 and 1939. The Westland Case / The Black Doll / The Lady in the Morgue / Danger on the Air / The Last Express / The Last Warning / Gambling Ship / Mystery of the White Room / Inside Information / The House of Fear / The Witness Vanishes

@@cynthiamays8270 thank you for the information. Helpful to find more of these classic films. Great movies. Great cast

@@cynthiamays8270 thank you for the crime club movie list. I will check em’ out today. Love ❤️ these movies, so much better than crap today.

@@cynthiamays8270 thank u I am going to watch them😘

Thank you for these movies. They have been immensely helpful during the pandemic and this election season. Thank you again.

I agree sir/madam, truly great entertainment!

I totally agree😉

Peppers was certainly a Mae West wannabe.😘

Mae West wannabe.😘

@@scarygary-qq1pj Mae West was a Barbara Pepper wannabe.

Hot stuff.Pepper!

NO....SHES DOING A TOUGH JEAN HARLOW.................

@@maxlinder5262 either way she is a honey - lots of spirit.

@@maxlinder5262 With that figure? Harlow wasn't built like West.

That type of woman could ruin my life after a few years together.Where's my time machine?

@@maxlinder5262 No, she's very clearly doing Mae West.

Vee Cee, I already watch the lady in the mourge before I saw this one.

@@auletjohnast03638 me 3

Its a great movie

​@@auletjohnast03638WATCHED

Well, you know, there IS such a thing as REALITY. And Reality is in color.

@@leelarson107 no, black and white is best when you have to follow a plot - less distraction.

Color is best for war films 🎥 and science fiction too.

"Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip fans should remember when Calvin's dad explained to Calvin that the world really WAS black & white in the old days.🐯

Alice Belcher, born in NY, NY in 1880. She had her (silent) film debut in 1919, and appeared in 78 film roles from then through this Westland Case, which was her last. She died in CA in 1939, aged 59. Her roles were almost all uncredited minor roles.

@@footfault Thanks for this information it’s great to know about these past actors!!!!!

@@rhooper11 Try IMDB for entire cast lists and bios.

She was infamous long before this. An imitator.

I live in Chicago area too and of course recognized all the downtown street names. I guessed they were talking about lower wacker. Curious how much of it was actually filmed here.

there is one but for the life of me I can't remember the title but he's a writer for paper or a magazine that is against the death penalty. I wish I could remember it, it's a good movie

@@IamEvil69 It is a Bob and Ray script. Ray is hired by his newspaper to find the real killer and to free the innocent man in prison. After spending a boat load of money and traveling around the country for a year interviewing people, he comes back to his boss, the editor, to tell him that the man who was originally arrested, is, in fact, the guilty person.

Except for Doc's childish reaction of Aunt Mary.

Do you mean "Mr. Moto's Last Warning"?🤔

Frank Jenks.

I heard that in most b&w movies and t.v. shows, the actors sometimes wore green make-up because it made them look more natural. Dunno if that's true.🤢🧟💚

Doug Kidwell It sure was!

That's what I thought too

Semiauto pistols were typically called automatics. www.quora.com/Why-is-a-45-calibre-pistol-called-Automatic-and-not-Semi-Automatic-as-it-actually-is

@@thatguyinelnorte Thanks John Bailey, I read the link and learned something today. There were several explanations but I particularly liked the explanation by Luke Blasi:..." Because automatic refers to any rifle or pistol that will automatically load a new cartridge into the chamber after the previous one is fired. Semi-automatic refers to a firearm that completes that action with each trigger pull. Fully automatic refers to the same action but without having to pull the trigger multiple times. An automatic gun can be semi-automatic or fully automatic. So automatic is more of a classification of how the gun operates whereas fully automatic or semi-automatic is more of the exact method." Very educational. I am 69 and I still enjoy learning new stuff....thanks...!!

The Long Goodbye was based on a novel by Raymond Chandler, and Gould was playing Chandler's literary detective Philip Marlowe.

From a coronary in 1969, according to Wiki.🫀

Alice Belcher. See my reply to "Ace Handler"'s comment today.

I think she was in the jury for the 3 stooges short- Disorder in the court

​@@archnof0Oh, yeah. She gave her phone # to that jurist after he fell into her. "After Five O'Clock". 😄🤣😄🤣😄🤣😄

One of the ladies at the table asks: do you think that's Grant?

Maybe he had changed his name?

Another mistake is that Westland was taken from his cell to be executed, but when the warden wanted him in his office, he was back in his cell with the priest!🙀

christianmarkbelovedson Sutto....Yes, it sure is. You see him first in the beginning at 1:57.

Well,he would be an actor.

Hélas

...and mornin' Boo-Boo !!

Good looking guy

Who he?