Director:
Frank McDonald
Year: 1936
Rating: 5.5
Year: 1936
Rating: 5.5
This is a film of one of Mignon Eberhart's Sarah Keate's series of books.
In the books she is a nurse who keeps coming across murder in her work and
solving the cases. There were five films of her seven novels. The other one
I found and watched was While the Patient Slept. So far those are the only
two I could track down which is too bad because for B mysteries they are
ok. This one is better than the other. While the Patient was a mix of comedy
and mystery while this one is all mystery and a decent one. I have to admit
that I bought this book on Kindle and didn't get very far with it. Not even
to the murder. The writing just felt old-fashioned and slow. This zips along
nicely at 58 minutes.
The Thatcher family is old money though perhaps not as much as they used to have. The black sheep (William Davidson) of the family has turned up demanding $25,000 or he will spill the family secrets. Among the family is the lovely Claire Dodd, Joseph Crehan, John Eldredge, a few others and the maternal figure Virginia Brissac, whose first film appearance was in 1913 and her last was Rebel Without a Cause in 1955. They all agree to get him the money but that night someone shoots and wounds him in bed. They call in the doctor (Lyle Talbot) and the nurse named Sally for some reason played by Marguerite Churchill. They have something going on between them while in the books it is a cop she has a romance with.
She tends to him but the next afternoon he asks her to please go out on the lawn and leave him alone. He is of course murdered. A bunch of suspects and everybody is lying as Sally tries to put it together. There is a big giveaway but even so it is fairly enjoyable especially as she gathers them all together and tells them who the killer is. The D.A. and the police look on mouths open. Huh. How come we couldn't figure that out.
The Thatcher family is old money though perhaps not as much as they used to have. The black sheep (William Davidson) of the family has turned up demanding $25,000 or he will spill the family secrets. Among the family is the lovely Claire Dodd, Joseph Crehan, John Eldredge, a few others and the maternal figure Virginia Brissac, whose first film appearance was in 1913 and her last was Rebel Without a Cause in 1955. They all agree to get him the money but that night someone shoots and wounds him in bed. They call in the doctor (Lyle Talbot) and the nurse named Sally for some reason played by Marguerite Churchill. They have something going on between them while in the books it is a cop she has a romance with.
She tends to him but the next afternoon he asks her to please go out on the lawn and leave him alone. He is of course murdered. A bunch of suspects and everybody is lying as Sally tries to put it together. There is a big giveaway but even so it is fairly enjoyable especially as she gathers them all together and tells them who the killer is. The D.A. and the police look on mouths open. Huh. How come we couldn't figure that out.