Rainey Dawn
This one is rather boring and could have been better if they left out the lame comedy (mainly from Clutch Tracy) and turned it into a pure mystery-thriller! This one really is "stagy" and seems to drag in lots of places. For me, the only parts that are somewhat good are with George Zucco and he's not in the film all that much it's mainly the other cast members that take center stage or should I say center "stagy"?! This one is a case of who has the corpse now and takes place mainly in a wax museum or Sue Gallagher's (Savage) upstairs apartment, which is above and within the wax museum.The film is "okay" I guess but definitely NOT Zucco's nor Savage's best film - this might be their worst film or pretty close to it.3/10
mark.waltz
Weak comedy involving murder, criminals and missing corpses, all with a newspaper and a wax museum setting. George Zucco, the British Erich Von Stroheim, is in the first scene shooting an alleged crime figure and for the rest of the movie, he's hunting down the corpse which walked while still alive into the museum and ends up being lost. The comedy comes in the form of reporter Ann Savage and museum worker Leo Gorcey (of the Bowery Boys series) and their efforts to find the corpse and get it to the police so the murder can be solved. It's all pretty confusing and silly and ultimately it really makes absolutely no sense. For a movie made from the Pine Thomas division of Paramount studios, this proves after "One Body Too Many" and "Scared Stuff" that comedy was not their forte. They did mostly war movies, so it seems out of their element. Savage better the same year when she starred in the film noir "Detour". Zucco comes off unscathed as the villain. Leo Gorcey is, while playing Slip Mahoney, although with a different character name. It's adequate for an hour long time filler with a few amusing lines, but the plot is absurd behind belief.
kidboots
This is a comedy who-done-it set in and around "The Last Gangster" wax museum. George Zucco plays Jelke, who kills Joe Wells (George E. Stone)who dies on the steps of the wax museum. Gallagher (Ann Savage)finds the body and sets it up as one of the exhibits.The killer returns and it is a race to see if they can get the body to the police before the murderer strikes again.The really interesting thing about this film is every part is played by people known by all. You can have fun guessing where you have seen them before.George E. Stone - looking a lot older than I remember him was always memorable in "42nd Street", "Little Ceasar" and "Cimarron".Ann Savage, who had such a different role in "Detour" plays Gallagher, a snappy reporter.Leo Gorcey seemed to make quite a few movies away from the Bowery Boys - he plays the young, wise-cracking museum assistant.George Zucco was always the dour scientist or professor in lots of these B or C films.William Gargan, who was a familiar face in the 1930s played Gallagher's boyfriend, Pete Willis.Ben Weldon, who always looked the same - he mostly played thugs and hoodlums in films like "Marked Woman" turns up for one scene as a hotel manager.Paul Hurst was in it as well - playing a policeman. He always seemed to play baddies, especially in westerns. He has over 300 movies listed on IMDb.
Hitchcoc
There isn't much to say about this one. It involves a body (which should be decomposing) being dragged around by a series of people. There are a couple of reporters who use absolutely no common sense in the process of trying to use the body to get a scoop. There's Leo Gorcey, playing the Bowery Boys character, with the malapropisms and the general insensitivity. George Zucco is running around, trying to get his hands on the body. Keeping a low profile probably would have protected him, but this doesn't occur to him. Everything is silly and far fetched and probably played well in a theatre on Saturday afternoon as a bit of escapist drivel in the forties.
AD
