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      Strangers of the Evening

      1932 1h 11m Comedy List
      Reviews A police detective (Eugene Pallette) and a comical couple (ZaSu Pitts, Lucien Littlefield) confuse the case of a mobile corpse. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member good pre-code blk comedy see some of the shit they got with b4 the code was enforced in 1934. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member The film seemed to try hard to have many goofy little moments, but it never was particularly funny--Oddball mystery!! Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Like contemporaries such as "Indiscreet," "Murder!," and many others, "Strangers of the Evening" is a casualty of filmmakers realizing they could actually use sound in their movies. So, in lieu of the dignified, restrained, imagination-baiting cards that were used sparingly to such great effect in the movies of artists as diverse as Chaplin and Murnau, we instead hear every banal, agonizing word every character feels the need to speak onscreen. We're treated to police inquisitions that devolve into Vaudeville sketches. A batty old woman (silent great Zasu Pitts, floundering with the advent of talking pictures) jabbering on about a tenant she recently took on who has apparently become the love of her life. We get to hear an undertaker's assistant so obnoxious he makes Leo Gorcey look like Laurence Olivier. And we get to hear most of the central characters mutter half-sentences explaining (futilely) a plot to safeguard the reputation of a deceased rising political star by switching his corpse with that of someone else. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis A police detective (Eugene Pallette) and a comical couple (ZaSu Pitts, Lucien Littlefield) confuse the case of a mobile corpse.
      Director
      H. Bruce Humberstone
      Genre
      Comedy
      Original Language
      English
      Runtime
      1h 11m