Strangers of the Evening

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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 3.5/5 Stars •  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 2.5/5 Stars •  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 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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