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Carlton E. Morse (radio series)
Charles O'Neal (writer)
Release Date:
25 January 1945 (USA) more
Tagline:
"WHEN THE TEMPLE BELLS TOLL FOUR TIMES...You will die!" (original print ad - mostly caps) more
Plot:
Opening with a car crash and a decapitation, the story is told in flashback as Joe and Doc become involved... more | add synopsis
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By far the best of the "I Love A Mystery" series... more (7 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Jim Bannon | ... | Jack Packard |
 | Nina Foch | ... | Ellen Monk |
| George Macready | ... | Jefferson Monk |
| Barton Yarborough | ... | Doc Long |
| Carole Mathews | ... | Jean Anderson |
| Lester Matthews | ... | Justin Reeves / Mr. Gee |
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69 min
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First of three films based on the popular radio series, ‘I Love a Mystery’. The next two were The Devil's Mask (1946) and The Unknown (1946). more
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Jefferson Monk: [after narrating his bizarre story of confronting "Mr. G.," the leader of the Baru-Kan secret society, who offered him $50,000 for his head] The whole thing sounds so preposterous! more
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There's a real film noir feeling to this Columbia programmer based on the "I Love A Mystery" radio series. The story is a good one, about a man who predicts his own death will happen in a few days (GEORGE MACREADY) and hires two detectives (JIM BANNON and BARTON YARBOROUGH) to help him avoid the hit man.
The plot keeps spinning unpredictably from scene to scene, all of it played in earnest style by the participants, including NINA FOCH as Macready's scheming wife. As a matter of fact, it has the feel of a Cornel Woolrich story, but he didn't pen this one.
Well photographed, given some good production values and it gives George Macready another chance to show just how he could dominate any scene he appeared in. His role here is just as enjoyable as his much more famous screen appearance in Columbia's GILDA.
With a clever script and smoothly directed, it's probably the best in the trio of "I Love A Mystery" series that made it to the screen.