The Kennel Murder Case
by Michael Curtiz
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Actor: Eugene Pallette, Mary Astor, Ralph Morgan, Robert McWade, William PowellDirector: Michael Curtiz
Cinematographer: William Rees
Editor: Harold McLernon
Producer: Robert Presnell Sr.
Writer: Robert Presnell Sr.
Writer: Peter Milne
Writer: Robert N. Lee
Writer: S.S. Van Dine
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 73 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-07-30
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Alpha Video
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Movie Review: Very Nearly the Perfect Murder Mystery
Summary: 4 Stars
In THE KENNEL MURDER MYSTERY, William Powell as detective Philo Vance gives one of his earlier portrayals of the utterly suave leading man who is always at the eye of a murder hurricane. The thirties was known for churning out genre films like this, a whodunit, and such films put to shame the tripe put out by Hollywood today. Murder mystery films by their very nature are intrinsically plot driven, with little or no emphasis given to round or flat characters. As they enter the way they are, they exit the same way. The joy is watching how the lead pieces together the threads of a crime before gathering the suspects in a room and then announcing, "Ah ha. It was you (the culprit) all along!" Basil Rathbone and Warner Oland were to do much the same in a few years. Here Powell is faced with what appears to be a suicide but he soon deduces is in fact a murder, that unsurprisingly leads to a second one. Along the way, he has great fun interacting with an ensemble of veteran B actors like Eugene Pallette and Mary Astor, all of whom bounce off him in just the right way to produce a sense of omnipotence on Powell's part. Things run so smoothly that we scarcely note any logical flaws. We are entranced by the magic of Powell's liquid diction. There is no question that director Michael Curtiz was pointing the audience toward a surprise ending. There was no further question about the legitimacy of Powell's astuteness at the end. Finally, there is no question that we would gladly see this whodunit once again--even knowing the end. There can be no higher compliment for a film of this type.
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