Saturday, May 14, 2022

Phantom of 42nd Street

Phantom of 42nd Street is a 1945 film directed by Albert Herman, starring Dave O'Brien and Kay Aldridge. Wikipedia offers this plot description:
An actor is killed during the performance of a play while critic Tony Woolrich (Dave O'Brien) is attending. Initially Woolrich is reluctant to investigate, even though he's encouraged to do so by his friend Romeo (Frank Jenks), who is also the taxi driver who brought him to the show, and acts as a sort of sidekick throughout the story.

Tony is chewed out by his editor for not investigating when he happened to be at the scene of the crime, and so he takes an initially reluctant interest. Tony becomes more involved in the investigation when there is another murder, and when Claudia Moore (Kay Aldridge, in her last movie role), the girl he loves, is suspected, and is also possibly threatened by the killer.
There's not all that much to it, but it's under an hour long and for its length they tell a good yarn.



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12 comments:

  1. ...another that I missed.

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  2. Anonymous12:28 PM

    Blogger is not playing nicely. I’m having problems commenting -CJ

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    1. Disabling my adblocker worked for me. Odd.

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  3. We've been watching Vera, from BBC!

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    1. I love Vera!!! I always look forward to a new season :)

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  4. Anonymous5:27 AM

    I saw this awhile ago, and liked it. Anne

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  5. Now, this one sounds super fun. I've never heard of it before but I might have to give this one a watch!

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    1. I continue to be surprised by the huge number of movies there are out there.

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  6. I got an error when I tried to publish. Did it twice. Now I'm back for a third time.

    This sounds good. i would love to see it, but I'm playing catch up after Blogger has given me fits.


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    1. Thanks for continuing to try. The comment difficulty has been frustrating!

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