A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
Nurse Sarah Keate
Detective Lt. Lance O'Leary
March Federie, Richard's Granddaughter
Eustace Federie
Mittie Federie
Adolphe Federie
Isobel Federie - Adolphe's Wife
Ross Lonergan
Elihu Dimuck
Richard Federie
Police Sgt. Jim Jackson
Dr. Jay
Grondal - the Butler
'Murph' Murphy - the Ballistics Expert (uncredited)
Evening Bulletin Reporter (uncredited)
Evening Bulletin Editor (uncredited)
Bank Teller (uncredited)
Kema - the Cook (uncredited)
Guy Kibbee ("O'Leary") and Aline MacMahon ("Nurse Sarah") are clearly having some fun in this amiably entertaining big house murder mystery. The story centres around a dying old millionaire who finds his grasping family assembling to see what they are going to get! When the butler is killed, everyone starts pointing fingers, and it falls to these two to, rarely in conjunction and frequently despite themselves, get to the bottom of things. It doesn't hang around, there is plenty of quick-witted dialogue and though the plot - there are twins involved, which is always a bit of a giveaway - is maybe not the most taxing, it does end quite quirkily and I rather enjoyed it.
March 9, 1935
Nurse Sarah Keate
Detective Lt. Lance O'Leary
March Federie, Richard's Granddaughter
Eustace Federie
Mittie Federie
Adolphe Federie
Isobel Federie - Adolphe's Wife
Ross Lonergan
Elihu Dimuck
Richard Federie
Police Sgt. Jim Jackson
Dr. Jay
Grondal - the Butler
'Murph' Murphy - the Ballistics Expert (uncredited)
Evening Bulletin Reporter (uncredited)
Evening Bulletin Editor (uncredited)
Bank Teller (uncredited)
Kema - the Cook (uncredited)
Guy Kibbee ("O'Leary") and Aline MacMahon ("Nurse Sarah") are clearly having some fun in this amiably entertaining big house murder mystery. The story centres around a dying old millionaire who finds his grasping family assembling to see what they are going to get! When the butler is killed, everyone starts pointing fingers, and it falls to these two to, rarely in conjunction and frequently despite themselves, get to the bottom of things. It doesn't hang around, there is plenty of quick-witted dialogue and though the plot - there are twins involved, which is always a bit of a giveaway - is maybe not the most taxing, it does end quite quirkily and I rather enjoyed it.