THE LADY IN THE MORGUE (1938)

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THE LADY IN THE MORGUE (1938)

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Күн бұрын

The second in a series of three films based on Jonathan Latimer's great Bill Crane series. The first was THE WESTLAND CASE. More info on my blog, here: davycrockettsa...

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@poppyfuller2695 4 жыл бұрын

Nice to go back in time ...better than the garbage of today. Thank-you

@peterjohnson617 4 жыл бұрын

you are so right about that

@VictoriaAlfredSmythe 3 жыл бұрын

there was a ton of garbage back then also & there are some fine movies today

@kimberlykasimoff1447 3 жыл бұрын

@@VictoriaAlfredSmythe At least people back then in the movies kept their clothes on, foul language was kept at a minimum with "heck" or "darn" and the scripts were pretty clean.

@jjmboston5832 3 жыл бұрын

wish they'd clean up these 8 CRIME CLUB films and issue them in dvd package

@leelarson107 Жыл бұрын

I'LL GO ALONG WITH THAT, and I'd be willing to buy the whole set.

@Flowerchild778 6 ай бұрын

I'd guess that you can't expect too much in the way of cleaning them up, but I'd watch a boxed set😊 The Nero Wolfe Mysteries were good too.

@williambrown8654 Ай бұрын

I c they lynching black people

@ergbudster3333 3 жыл бұрын

First rate. Unusually crisp dialogue.

@leelarson107 2 жыл бұрын

Preston Foster had good diction.

@billywalkabout5076 4 ай бұрын

Great movie I love those old movies thank you for posting

@marilynbaylis524 2 жыл бұрын

Good detective story. Nothing like the good old stories. Thanks for sharing! ❤️👍 👏.

@angelamagruder5911 3 жыл бұрын

That was a good movie,do not mind seeing again at another time,thanks.

@dalanmanbros8311 4 ай бұрын

One very entertaining Crime Club film, with lots of nice twists, turns and dialogue. Thanks for posting this!!

@carlozabbia1157 2 жыл бұрын

It's always a joy to watch a Barbara Pepper movie.

@lesliehunter1340 3 жыл бұрын

"I'm sending you over to the morgue." "Think they'll take me?" 😄

@acehandler1530 4 жыл бұрын

There were some hilariously outrageous lines in this movie - right up my alley! "Now wake up and pay attention!" "If you're gonna kiss me, let's get out of the lobby!" Excellent, loved the humor in this movie, thanks for the upload.

@controlleddemolition9112 2 жыл бұрын

More often than not, when screen writers in this era and later, in sitcoms, tried to be clever, the dialogue wound up being nothing more than annoyingly "cutesy" and very contrived. This had genuinely clever and funny dialogue.

@eubiecat 4 жыл бұрын

That movie is a load of wise-cracking fun!

@crazymotherdance7317 2 жыл бұрын

Cute movie

@carmenwatson2885 4 жыл бұрын

Lovin these old black and white movies!! I hardly watch my tv lately lol!!

@dorisp9127 4 жыл бұрын

When my cable contract expired, I quit cable altogether. Nothing on but junk. Saved me $$ each month. Only watch free B&W movies like this.

@pinkbeautytwinkle 4 жыл бұрын

When I see a B&W movie or show, I gravitate towards it right away because I know it's good!

@lgeubs 4 жыл бұрын

Thomas E. Jackson (Lieutenant Strom) must have played basically that same character in a million movies -- a dry, sarcastic, sometimes wise-cracking detective. (In "Nancy Drew, Reporter," he was an editor.) He was just perfect for the role.

@leelarson107 Жыл бұрын

He also did a great job as a sarcastic police inspector.

@davidjacob5828 4 жыл бұрын

The part of Kay Renshaw is played by Barbara Pepper, Green Acres' Doris Ziffel.

@leelarson107 Жыл бұрын

She was hot stuff in her younger years.

@MrCraigblaze Жыл бұрын

@@leelarson107 Really ??.. She has the same birthday as Soap opera actors Robin Strand And Christopher Holder !!

@GigiGartenberg 3 жыл бұрын

lot of witty lines. loveing this

@michaeldanello3966 2 жыл бұрын

Based on a novel by Jonathan Latimer who wrote and edited dozens of Perry Mason TV shows from 1960-65. He also wrote several of these Crime Club novels

@amsbestunderstanding1646 2 жыл бұрын

Enjoyed the clever dialogue. Thank you for sharing!

@leelarson107 3 жыл бұрын

Almost didn't recognize 'Wild Bill Elliott' (Chauncey) not dressed as a cowboy. He was 34 in this movie, and died at age 61 of lung cancer from those cigarettes he did commercials for.

@SybilDefense 2 жыл бұрын

What a great flick. Going to have to search to see if the same chemistry is portrayed in any others. I've never seen "hung over" played so nicely :)

@busby777 4 жыл бұрын

very good film -- thank you for putting it up here

@user-wc7mo9uo9o 4 жыл бұрын

Lot's of fun to watch. Really good movie.

@maryannhayes557 2 жыл бұрын

If anyone was a Red Ryder(Wild Bill Elliott fan) you will be interested to know he was Chauncey Courtland in this movie. I recognized his voice. Even with the mustache I recognized him. I remember my mother loved to watch his western movies.

@leelarson107 2 жыл бұрын

When I was a kid in the early 1950's, I was the only one in the gang who knew who 'Wild Bill Elliott' was.

@waderaney7 3 жыл бұрын

A good 🎥 in a clear print 😀👋

@annanimity5606 4 жыл бұрын

...Wow, this is great!...Please keep them coming!

@louisbrugnoni7639 2 жыл бұрын

Much better than I expected. 19 minutes in the cops are trying to enter a hotel room where all that’s keeping them out is a flimsy chain lock. Funniest thing to seem him bust through the door to remove the chain! 😂

@remmymafia3889 Жыл бұрын

and it wasn't much of a door, was it? (lol)

@SuzyDogLover Жыл бұрын

I know that was hilarious 😂

@buttegowda 4 жыл бұрын

"Don't sleep in the morgue ... they will bury you too"

@judystansberry126 4 жыл бұрын

buttegowda xx

@judystansberry126 4 жыл бұрын

Judy

@judystansberry126 4 жыл бұрын

Call

@usermikes 3 жыл бұрын

Lady who owned Arnold the pig in Green Acres tv show was in this movie..What a beauty she was too.

@jasoncollins1702 4 жыл бұрын

The opening credits music was taken from Universal's own The Bride of Frankenstein!

@kennnethmitchell7650 4 жыл бұрын

I noticed that too!. I lol!!

@jasoncollins1702 4 жыл бұрын

@@kennnethmitchell7650 Have you seen the Buck Rogers serials? Same thing.

@shirleyrandle3138 4 жыл бұрын

Loved it!

@NancyDrewe 4 жыл бұрын

Fun Crime Club movie. Thanks, appreciate these uploads now very much. :)

@lindamcdermott2205 3 жыл бұрын

You will be amazed at your playlist from you tube after watching these genres...very helpful

@josephlemko3027 4 жыл бұрын

Preston Foster is always fun to watch. Thanks for the upload.

@pedromartinez8002 3 жыл бұрын

Hlttddy

@floydroadheroes 10 ай бұрын

entertaining flick! Very much enjoyed, thank you for posting this!

@winstonpoole9906 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent print, Excellent film.

@retiredmusiceducator3612 3 жыл бұрын

any of you musicians out there - or folks with a musical ear - notice the simliar sounds in the opening music to Superman theme sound?

@87ventus 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this funny, entertaining movie, I gotta say it . It's a smirk a minute.. It's so clever. Oh man. " Who's the musician?". " I don't know any musician" "well that very uncomplementary..I thought the guy was good".. thanks again

@drewsagar2634 4 жыл бұрын

That Guy at the desk in the morgue was Spanky McFarlands father on the original “our gang” comedy AKA little rascals

@leelarson107 3 жыл бұрын

WRONG. You're looking at Byron Foulger, who was married to Dorothy Adams and was the father of Rachel Ames. **You're probably thinking of either Johnny Arthur or Charles Halton.

@Alan-rh1el 3 жыл бұрын

Well that's my second Bill Crane film after The Westland Case and just as enjoyable.Just need to find the third one to complete set,thanks for posting.

@11froglegs Жыл бұрын

What is the 3rd one?

@Alan-rh1el Жыл бұрын

@@11froglegs The Last Warning.

@Alan-rh1el Жыл бұрын

@@11froglegs just to add it’s been a year and I have not been able to find it.

@guineapig4701 4 жыл бұрын

"You know me I can sleep anywhere"! Lolol

@janhulse9518 Ай бұрын

I am mesmerized by how the cab zooms off a milli second after the door closes .such a giggle. and fast too. and the dance scene with Doc. cool!

@gtlfb 3 жыл бұрын

Plot is a bit goofy, but who cares? A wonderfully entertaining movie, and what a treat to see Barbara Pepper in her prime. A former Ziegfeld Girl, she was a lifelong friend of Lucille Ball who saw to it Barbara always had a job. The last few notes of the opening credit music are that well known theme first used in the Frankenstein films.

@carlozabbia1157 2 жыл бұрын

I couldn't agree more re: Barbara Pepper. And I, too, noticed the Frankenstein music.

@mortdewerewolfe691 2 жыл бұрын

What ''plot''?

@thomasknight1190 3 жыл бұрын

Great film really entertaining good laugh as well I don’t make them like they used to

@sherrihinton8567 2 жыл бұрын

@donberry7657 4 жыл бұрын

The writer missed a chance for a great line. When the dude says "Don't I look like a guy who knows a hearse when I see one?" the P.I. should have said," Only from the inside out." Bazinga!

@henryathurmanjr 4 жыл бұрын

HA HA!

@2004mojo 4 жыл бұрын

I checked out your blog and loved it. Nice posters from this film which I'm watching right now. . I am now subscribed!

@auletjohnast03638 3 жыл бұрын

THE PRIVATE EYE ALSO PLAYS PHILLIP MARLOW IN OTHER MOVIES.

@chirelle.alanalooney8609 2 жыл бұрын

I just love Frank Jenks. He is so funny, and his expressions and mannerisms remind me of Bob Hope. I think Bob Hope and Frank Jenks would have made a very funny duo, both comical and hilarious!!!

@leelarson107 2 жыл бұрын

Frank Jenks was far more skilled than Bob Hope ever was. Hope's performances were heavily scripted, while Jenks was spontaneous and could deliver in rat-a-tat fashion. You can see Bob Hope fumbling while on the old Johnny Carson Show. Carson was also spontaneous, and Hope couldn't handle that.

@chirelle.alanalooney8609 2 жыл бұрын

@@leelarson107 That's why Frank Jenks is so spontaneously funny, that is why I love the guy!

@chirelle.alanalooney8609 2 жыл бұрын

@@leelarson107 You should check out Ned Sparks, and his voice is really wild. I love that too, and he's really funny.

@leelarson107 Жыл бұрын

@@chirelle.alanalooney8609 My father was a commercial artist with some Hollywood connections back in the 1930's, and among the many autographed photos he had (and which I now have) is one from Ned Sparks, signed directly to my father.

@chirelle.alanalooney8609 Жыл бұрын

@@leelarson107 Oh Ned Sparks was another funny guy the way he talked was hilarious. I just loved him.

@rogermorris7309 4 жыл бұрын

ya know I am finding these , some of these movies are pretty fu&#ing good, almost no production cost, and lots of intrigue and good audience focus

@shilohbrutalis582 2 жыл бұрын

you have the most unique collection of cowboy songs I've ever seen. Salute

@glendabaker8095 2 жыл бұрын

I love old black and white movies

@musicalme27 2 ай бұрын

OMG. The opening music is that of "Bride of Frankenstein" !!

@perspective2186 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the movie… Hope you post more like this movie…Movies were great in the. Early Days of Hollywood..

@markevan1 2 жыл бұрын

Calling car 126, car 1 2 6. "That's us!" They were sharp back then.

@leelarson107 2 жыл бұрын

Shows you what a doughnuts-and-coffee diet will do for you.

@DmPmRr1959 3 жыл бұрын

Boy, that lead character owned a lot of shirts!

@muniryassin9351 4 жыл бұрын

Preston Foster is fun to watch in action and the girls are really good looking . A good suspense story .

@ptaglobalvman 4 жыл бұрын

Very good film, lots of fun twists.

@mariovaccarella6854 8 ай бұрын

So far, this picture, in 1938, is the earliest I've heard Universal Movies Disco Globe Theme & Universal Music, contributed to Composer Frank Skinner, in Universal Movies Credits

@srinagardiary-lifeinkashmi5731 3 жыл бұрын

my feel good movies for corona lockdown

@paulcaron400 3 жыл бұрын

Preston Foster was one of the great actors of that era and if no one has ever seen Impact watch it, always good as usual💫

@keithharvey7230 8 ай бұрын

Impact was Brian Donlevy.

@kathleenlynch7603 Жыл бұрын

Great character actors! Enjoyed it!

@footfault 4 жыл бұрын

Pretty reasonable hotel rate, $3/night, even if it is a fleabag, at about 15:34.

@653j521 2 жыл бұрын

1938=almost $60 today, according to The Inflation Calculator.

@gailjarvis2592 3 жыл бұрын

I got confused with the plot a little but Preston Foster was so compelling - and his "side-kick"'s (a wonderful actor: I'm sorry I didn't get your name in the credits...) interaction with him really carried you along. Lots of great 30's scenes with sleek Thirties style. Again, Preston Foster was renowned for being a great director/screenwriter, but he is now quite renowned for being an actual infiltrator of Hollywood via the Communist Party. - The story for years was that he was one of the "victims of the Blacklist", Hollywood Seven, and all that. Now it turns out that he was bonafide. I think a lot of people jointed "the Party" because after the Depression in the 1890's followed by WWI, and then The Great Depression, there was a huge population of the American masses that were in deep hardship (some still limping along from the Civil War, naturally). The Communist theory of a supposed Utopia was the pull, - until the Social Progressive-ism digs it's heals in and voila - Fascism. - But I suppose many of those early, well-meaning artists believed the Manifesto. . We're seeing it all played out again today. These people planted a lot of seeds. They do that and then their chosen leaders crush them.

@jimmypeters 3 жыл бұрын

You've confused the actor Preston Foster with the director/screen writer Preston Sturges, both favorites of mine. Didn't know about Sturges and the Red Scare era, as you suggest hard to blame people for leaning to the Left during The Great Depression, not exactly a rallying point for Capitalism.

@MyMy-zi7yv 3 жыл бұрын

@@jimmypeters Glad you feel that way peter james because it won't be long before this here United States will be there. And you can thank the millions of ignorant people in this Country for not knowing what the hell was going on and even worse, just couldn't make it to the voting polls because they were just too tired or something or other.

@markevan1 2 жыл бұрын

@@MyMy-zi7yv "This here United States"? LOL Southern are you?

@chirelle.alanalooney8609 2 жыл бұрын

His sidekicks name is FRANK JENKS !!!!!!!

@controlleddemolition9112 2 жыл бұрын

Could Sturges (ie, the correct name of the writer/director in question) have been both a communist and a victim of the blacklist? There's a vast difference between being a communist and a traitor. There is nothing in US law that makes being a communist or even an anarchist illegal in and of itself. It's supposed to be a free country with freedom of political thought. They don't arrest people for being Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Green Party, Tea Party and so forth. They let them waste their time voting and delude them into thinking that elections matter. They shouldn't be legally allowed to blacklist them for their political beliefs either, but they did and still do. They just don't do it out in the open now like they did in the height of the Red Scare. .

@mortdewerewolfe691 2 жыл бұрын

What sort of mortuary allows people to just wander around in it?

@maryowen1722 Жыл бұрын

These old movies have introduced me to Preston Foster and I love him!

@blahblah2556 Жыл бұрын

The end of that intro music was also used in the Frankenstein movie, not the first time i've noticed old movies do that.

@lesliehunter1340 2 жыл бұрын

In the beginning when they list the cast, there's a snippet of music from The Bride of Frankenstein! 😄

@jeanesingsjazz Жыл бұрын

The whole opening credits are from Franz Waxman’s score from the bride of Frankenstein (which belongs to Universal). They got a lot of usage out of his score. It turned up in many pictures over the years. That way they could save money and not have to pay someone to write a score for a movie.

@blodwyndavies6395 4 жыл бұрын

I think the opening score sounds a bit like the Frankenstein movie theme.

@thomasgansevoort929 3 жыл бұрын

IT IS!

@blodwyndavies6395 3 жыл бұрын

@@thomasgansevoort929 TY!!!

@Ben-vk4us 4 жыл бұрын

Darn good movie with Preston Foster and Red Ryder.

@rjmcallister1888 2 жыл бұрын

The "Bride of Frankenstein" music in the opening credits. Yeah, it's a Universal Picture, all right. Even though Standard Capital had taken over two years earlier, they were still running on the cheap. But the performances make up for it. Almost screwball film noir.

@silverscreenclassics9210 Жыл бұрын

Note the use of the film score from Bride Of Frankenstein in the intro credits.

@caroldurst1855 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful

@damianbowyer6258 4 жыл бұрын

Classic!!

@footfault 3 жыл бұрын

It often doesn't pay for one actress to resemble another, more established star, too much. Barbara Pepper was a dead ringer for Jean Harlow, cleft chin and all, who died tragically in 1937. Same setback happened to Dale Evans, whom the studios thought resembled Betty Grable too much (picture Dale blond, and you'll see it, too!). Hedy Lamarr and Joan Bennett managed successfully, even though close in looks, but not all look-alikes do.

@jacquelinejanz8466 3 жыл бұрын

An interesting line of thought. I’ve pondered that too. Sometimes the resemblance was perpetrated by the studio (Lizabeth Scott for Lauren Bacall or Martha Huerta for Grace Kelly)

@jacquelinejanz8466 3 жыл бұрын

Sorry about the autocorrect (Martha Hyer)

@leelarson107 2 жыл бұрын

Then there was Tom Dugan and Chick Chandler. Lynn Bari and Ann Savage. Adele Mara and Gloria Grahame. *Watch enough old movies and you'll see a lot of could-be similarity.

@robertwalker5521 Жыл бұрын

NOBODY looks like Heddy ! Watch her in ALGIERS..

@stephaniehand503 4 жыл бұрын

great

@rubiconklbrutorowman7577 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant surely one of the complex story written. I still don't get all the details tough 99 percent got it. Well written n acting make alive this well written crepty story with NOT very but extremely cunning nature of human being due to our problem sloving mind to acting in such snecky way no cat can match except ambusing from bush or tree, lepord case, n dedlier hunter is human.

@sandy3482 2 жыл бұрын

Never saw Patricia Ellis in a movie when she wasn't a blonde, she is beautiful either way!

@kathleenmckeithen118 Жыл бұрын

Great movie!!! Thank you!!

@jakeornot6306 Жыл бұрын

Frank Jenks, (musician, bandleader, actor), who plays 'Doc Williams' here, appeared as 'Sinkewicz' in 'Christmas In Connecticut'.

@remmymafia3889 Жыл бұрын

One of the more complicated 'who dun it' movies I've ever watched- no exaggeration.

@TheMadAfrican1 Жыл бұрын

Hoooooo boy. That scene in the hotel room with the elevator man has not aged very well. That is uncomfortable on so many levels.

@susanfaulkner2304 Ай бұрын

I'm surprised they had that in the movie!😮

@BlueWingedRino Ай бұрын

It was way more uncomfortable for the elevator man I bet.

@sandracloke6268 Жыл бұрын

Thoroughly enjoyed this crime/comedy.

@graemesmith6721 Жыл бұрын

Preston Foster reminds me a bit of Ralph Bellamy.

@garycullen2544 2 жыл бұрын

So good

@kimberlykasimoff1447 3 жыл бұрын

I hear the Frankenstein music at the opening credits.

@arleneparris3446 Жыл бұрын

I laughed my arse off, they don't make movies like this anymore

@thisisme3238 6 ай бұрын

Very interesting movie... definitely not what you think it would be, quite amusing.

@rjmcallister1888-l3p 8 күн бұрын

Using music from "Bride of Frankenstein" in the credits. Standard Capital may have dispatched Carl Laemmle, but they're still the very frugal Universal.