Tag Archives: Carole Landis

Reporter Henry Barton, just out of the Army, is chagrined to be made Science Editor Read More »

At the outset of World War II, June McCarthy meets Carl Cutler aboard the S.S.Aleria Read More »

Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. Read More »

When the Japanese capture the principal radio station of the American Radio Communications Company in the Philippines Read More »

The autobiography of elegant criminal, François Eugène Vidocq, from his birth in a French jail in 1775 Read More »

Radio personality Carroll Levis becomes involved in a case of theft and murder. Read More »

Sam Gallagher (Pat O’Brien), a former foreign correspondent and now a United States Government agent Read More »

Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other’s life. Read More »

It Happened in Flatbush is a likable baseball comedy inspired by the 1941 Brooklyn Dodgers’ pennant win. Read More »

Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas Read More »

Sugiani, a black-market racketeer in London, following World War II, is amassing a vast fortune until Linda Medbury, an American newspaper reporter, learns about him and his operation. Read More »

Promoter Frankie Christopher, being grilled by police in the murder of model Vicky Lynn, recalls in flashback: First meeting her as a waitress, Frankie decides to parlay her beauty into social acceptance and a lucrative career. He succeeds only too well: she’s on the eve of deserting him for Hollywood…when someone kills her. Now Frankie gets the feeling that Inspector Ed Cornell is determined to pin the killing on him and only him. He’s right. And the only one he can turn to for help is Jill, the victim’s sister, who’s been cool toward him…
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Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning insanity. The joke’s on him when he wakes up in an asylum full of comical lunatics. There he befriends Colonel Carraway, and together they escape, catching a ride with a beautiful blonde who proves to be Penguin Moore, carnival owner. The adventures of Drogo and the Colonel with Moore’s Carnival are replete with Hal Roach slapstick.
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Having Wonderful Crime spotlights Michael J. Malone, the murder-solving attorney created by author Craig Rice. The film is also ostensibly based on a novel by Rice, though precious little of the original actually made it to the screen. The story begins as Malone (Pat O’Brien) brusquely informs his newlywed friends Jake and Helene Justus (George Murphy and Carole Landis) that he’s not going to allow them to suck him into another murder mystery. Unfortunately for the attorney, Jake and Helene shortly afterward attend a stage magic show wherein the star magician (George Zucco) disappears for real! Their investigation leads to a resort hotel literally packed with murder suspects. When the newlyweds learn too much for their own good, it’s up to Malone to come to the rescue and nab the killer. One of the suspects is played by an actress named Anje Berens, who as “Gloria Holden” previously starred in Dracula’s Daughter (1936).
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