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Le secrétaire d'un animateur de radio se suicide mystérieusement après la disparition de sa riche jeune nièce.Le secrétaire d'un animateur de radio se suicide mystérieusement après la disparition de sa riche jeune nièce.Le secrétaire d'un animateur de radio se suicide mystérieusement après la disparition de sa riche jeune nièce.
Ted North
- Steven Francis Howard
- (as Michael North)
Charles Horvath
- Cab Driver
- (unconfirmed)
Jean Andren
- Bride's Mother
- (uncredited)
Mary Bayless
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Brooks Benedict
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Edward Biby
- Radio Program Coordinator
- (uncredited)
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesThe radio station call letters, WMCB, were created by inserting Michael Curtiz's initials into those of Warner Bros.
- GaffesDuring Oliver Keane's accident scene, he is seen driving a gray car at first, but when he skids off the road and tumbles down the hill, it is black.
- Citations
Jane Moynihan: After slaving all day over a hot typewriter, there's nothing I like better than a swan dive into a bottle of bourbon.
- Générique farfeluOpening titles and closing credits are typed in a bound manuscript, and gloved hands can be seen flipping the pages. This is a nod to the scripts that Grandison writes for his radio show.
- ConnexionsReferences Le Portrait de Dorian Gray (1945)
Commentaire en vedette
For his final film on his Warner Brothers contract Claude Rains got a starring role instead of being in support of one or two of Warner's name contract leads. Rains plays Victor Grandison the host of a radio mystery show where he narrates crime stories. He's a most popular host with good Hooper ratings I'm sure. Hooper by the way was the equivalent of the Nielsen ratings for television.
Rains lives well courtesy of his niece Joan Caulfield who has some large inherited wealth. There's another niece Audrey Totter who lives with them and her husband Hurd Hatfield, but not happily.
One of Rains's aides at the radio station is murdered. Then Caulfield is reported missing at sea. Before she's found Ted North arrives at the estate claiming to be her husband, but she can't remember getting married.
A couple of more deaths occur and always Rains is The Unsuspected one. What he is is a master manipulator of people and events.
The key to it all is North who is definitely not what he seems. Also Constance Bennett is around who works at the radio station. I liked her, but she's got a most ill defined role. And we never do learn why the first aide is killed.
Nevertheless Claude Rains is really giving a performance that they ought to show in acting classes. So many emotions, so subtly conveyed.
For Claude Rains fans everywhere.
Rains lives well courtesy of his niece Joan Caulfield who has some large inherited wealth. There's another niece Audrey Totter who lives with them and her husband Hurd Hatfield, but not happily.
One of Rains's aides at the radio station is murdered. Then Caulfield is reported missing at sea. Before she's found Ted North arrives at the estate claiming to be her husband, but she can't remember getting married.
A couple of more deaths occur and always Rains is The Unsuspected one. What he is is a master manipulator of people and events.
The key to it all is North who is definitely not what he seems. Also Constance Bennett is around who works at the radio station. I liked her, but she's got a most ill defined role. And we never do learn why the first aide is killed.
Nevertheless Claude Rains is really giving a performance that they ought to show in acting classes. So many emotions, so subtly conveyed.
For Claude Rains fans everywhere.
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- 25 sept. 2017
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- Durée1 heure 43 minutes
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