THE SCARLET CLUE
Recently re-watched this, having recorded it from TCM's "Asian Images" showing-- Now I know a lot of 40s mysteries tossed in elements of science fiction, but wow, TSC goes all the way! Poison gas...
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This was one of the better Monogram Chans and the one that gets watched more often than the others out of the Chanthology set. Great stuff.
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I also like the fact that it takes place in an old time radio station, which was a setting for several amusing mysteries including Abbott & Costello's WHO DONE IT and Republic's MYSTERY BROADCAST.
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The mystery villain is also a step up in this one, with that creepy monkey mask.
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But HOW did the villain install the trap door in the elevator without anyone noticing?
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The same way Blofeld made his volcano headquarters in You Only Live Twice.
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I recently watched this for the first time (bar the likely possibility I saw it on Chan Marathon as a kid), and I'm sorry to hear it is one of "the better" Monogram Chans. And by that I mean, I...
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Don't forget a Karloff-inspired horror thespian character, an early television broadcast, Mantan Moreland doing a vaudeville routine with his old partner and an unusually high gore quotient. The title...
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Mantan Moreland doing a vaudeville routine with his old partnerThat would be the Mantan Moreland/Ben Carter Team's "Incomplete Sentences"Vaudeville routine. TCM just aired this one as part of their...
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Moreland and Carter are teamed in at least one other movie, the 1941 Fox "Michael Shayne" B-mystery Dressed to Kill; they perform an impromptu soft-shoe dance and then are (reluctantly) recruited by...
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