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      Mystery Liner

      1934 1h 2m Mystery & Thriller List
      Reviews 0% Fewer than 50 Ratings Audience Score On an ocean liner, Capt. John Holling (Noah Beery) seems to have gone insane and is pulled from duty. But there's something fishy about the circumstances, especially since the boat is being controlled by a special radio device that the government is testing out. Then a few dead bodies surface, an investigation ensues and it becomes apparent that some of the ship's passengers are secret agents planning to get their hands on the technology aboard the ship -- but everyone's a suspect. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member not bad poverty row mystery.you can spot the bad guys they always have dark bushy eyebrows.noah beery hams it up nicely and you can't help liking a film with an actor in it called gustav von seyffertitz.the granny's a hoot too. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Quite a good whodunnit with some dastardly foreign agents trying to steal a top secret remote control device. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Kinda boring, but if you love mystery movies you may find it interesting. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Old classic "B" mystery is rather good. The story kept me interested and it was paced well. The acting and direction are good. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member A passenger liner is used for a covert experiment that will allow ships to be remote controlled and thus revolutionize modern sea warfare (modern here being 1934). But, agents of "hostile foreign powers" threaten the project, the ship's captain (Beery) has gone insane, and a shadowy figure is creeping about the ship murdering people. Will Major Pope (Maxwell) save the day by untangling the mystery and unmaking a double-agent who is closer to the experiment than anyone suspects? "Mystery Liner" has all the elements of being a really fun "detective thriller meets mad scientist" tale, but it's too talky, has just a touch too many subplots for a film that only runs an hour, and gets bogged down in the middle and becomes very, very boring. A couple of twists near the end will revive the interest of viewers who stick with it, but they really aren't interesting enough to warrant sitting throgh the lead-up. With average camera work and staging, blah acting all around, and uninteresting, flat characters, the only strong part of this film is the core story concepts, and they're not interesting enough to lift it above a very low 4 rating. (Triva: This film was based on a story by Edgar Wallace, a very popular mystery/thriller writer during the first quarter of the 20th century. Hundreds of films were made that adapted his work, and I think I've seen around a dozen. None have been all that good, however.) Mystery Liner (aka "The Ghost of John Holling") Starring: Cornelius Keefe, Edwin Maxwell, Astrid Allwyn, Boothe Howard, Zeffie Tilbury, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Howard C. Hickman, George Hayes, and Noah Beery Director: William Nigh Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Acceptable sci-fi whodunit programmer about several murders taking place on an ocean liner over a new high-tech invention. Rated: C+ May 13, 2009 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis On an ocean liner, Capt. John Holling (Noah Beery) seems to have gone insane and is pulled from duty. But there's something fishy about the circumstances, especially since the boat is being controlled by a special radio device that the government is testing out. Then a few dead bodies surface, an investigation ensues and it becomes apparent that some of the ship's passengers are secret agents planning to get their hands on the technology aboard the ship -- but everyone's a suspect.
      Director
      William Nigh
      Production Co
      Paul Malvern Productions
      Genre
      Mystery & Thriller
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      May 3, 2017
      Runtime
      1h 2m
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