Strangers of the Evening (1932)
1932 · Feature film · 65 min · dir. H. Bruce Humberstone
'SNOOKIE, TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED"?..."Well, The Cops Said I Killed A Man - And They Got Mad When I Asked Them, Did I?"
- Mystery
- Comedy
- Horror
Synopsis
Strangers of the Evening is a 1932 American pre-Code mystery film produced by Samuel Bischoff for Tiffany Pictures, directed by H. Bruce Humberstone, and starring ZaSu Pitts, Lucien Littlefield and Eugene Pallette. Based on Tiffany Thayer's novel The Illustrious Corpse, the screenplay was adapted by Stuart Anthony and Warren Duff.
Synopsis from Wikipedia
Details
- Director
- H. Bruce Humberstone
- Writer
- Tiffany Thayer
- Cinematography
- Arthur Edeson
- Studio
- Tiffany Productions, Quadruple Film Corp
- Released
- 1932-05-14
- Running time
- 65 minutes
Cast & crew
H. Bruce Humberstone Director
Zasu Pitts
Lucien Littlefield
Eugene Pallette
Tully Marshall
Miriam Seegar
Theodore von Eltz
Warner Richmond
Mahlon Hamilton
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★ · A Poor Excuse for a Screwball Mystery · Poohbah70 · 2019-06-04
Don't bother watching this "C" movie - unless you have to watch every move on this Archive. Zasu Pitts plays her usual Zasu Pitts role, moaning Oh!, Oh! whenever she's on camera. Eugene Palette plays a blustering, ineffectual police detective. In a way, the most interesting actor is Harold Waldridge, who gives a performance that runs like a training film for Jerry Lewis - nerdy, easily frightened and having the same vocal inflections typical of Lewis. That may be of interest to Lewis fans. Otherwise, why bother?
