A particularly important entry in VintageFilmBuff's Paramount collection is director Charles Vidor's 1934 engrossingly cinematic translation of the highly successful 1933 Broadway chiller, "Double Door", in which stage stars Mary Morris (her only film) and Anne Revere (film debut) repeat their roles most effectively, aided by lovely heroine Evelyn Venable and well-cast Kent Taylor as the weak-as-water "hero". Full marks for sets and atmosphere.
On another Paramount front, despite the casting of comedian, Charlie Ruggles, as the go-getting lead of "Murders in the Zoo" (1933), it's actually Randolph Scott who saves the day, but not before villainous Lionel Atwill...
I must admit I'm a sucker for movies set in a zoo, and this one is no exception despite the fact that we know who the killer is right from the opening shot. Nonetheless, screenwriters Seton I. Miller and Philip Wylie do contrive at least two or three quite unexpected twists in the plot. Director Eddie Sutherland keeps it moving.
On another Paramount front, despite the casting of comedian, Charlie Ruggles, as the go-getting lead of "Murders in the Zoo" (1933), it's actually Randolph Scott who saves the day, but not before villainous Lionel Atwill...
I must admit I'm a sucker for movies set in a zoo, and this one is no exception despite the fact that we know who the killer is right from the opening shot. Nonetheless, screenwriters Seton I. Miller and Philip Wylie do contrive at least two or three quite unexpected twists in the plot. Director Eddie Sutherland keeps it moving.