hwgrayson Review of Someone at the Door

Someone at the Door (1936)

"We are not trained to think in the police force, sir"

[5/10 · 1 May 2024]

Narracott Manor is the location where a brother and sister try to organise a journalistic scam to make money and also where hidden loot from a robbery is sought by a group of villains. It has comedy that's not amusing and mystery that's not difficult to fathom. The title 'Someone At The Door' is apt as the poor door knocker bangs constantly. You can see it work as the stage play it derives from and by mainly taking place in one location but as a film it is just mediocre. Of the cast I liked bulky Noah Beery as the ambiguous Harry Capel, Edward Chapman as the unfriendly butler Price and Hermione Gingold in a brief but hilarious cameo as the gloomy Lizzy. Unfortunately Billy Milton as the brother Ronnie is exceedingly irritating. The movie was remade in 1950.