Word: murdered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sirs: ... I protest vehemently against your vicious call to the Stalinites to murder Trotsky...
Alastair avenged his friend's murder, and by doing it shocked Margaret (who was just emerging from her pathological state) for what looked like keeps. So he went back to his craggy home to live like a hermit. Smoked out by treacherous government soldiers, he decided to go to America. On the ship whom should he see but Margaret. This time the shock was pleasant for both parties...
...Sinner Take All" is one of the best co-features in quite a while. It begins and almost ends as a murder picture of unusual merit with good dialogue and acting by Bruce Cabot and Margaret Lindsay. Though having a comparatively simple plot, it slips into the pilate of most murder stories when it concludes with the murderer being discovered at a dinner party. Of course, he is the one least suspected and with the thinnest of motives...
Before Detective Charles has pinned responsibility for the murder to the least likely character involved, After the Thin Man has introduced to cinema audiences as amusing a group of suspects as Author Hammett, its No. 1 purveyor of this specialty, has yet contributed to the screen. Included are: a monosyllabic cabaret keeper (Joseph Calleia) who shoots at Detective Charles in an apartment house basement; Mrs. Charles's Aunt Katherine (Jessie Ralph), who breaks photographers' cameras with an umbrella as big as a pole-vault pole; mild young David Graham (James Stewart), in love with Mrs. Charles...
...program, nevertheless, is barbarous. To subject intense human suffering to such pitiless glare of publicity is indecent. ... It attracts its audience by appeal to just those morbid impulses which turn notorious murder trials into courtroom circuses...