Mystery of the 13th Guest

Name: Mystery of the 13th Guest
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Released: 1943-11-05
Rating: 40
Cast: Dick Purcell, Helen Parrish, Tim Ryan, Frank Faylen, Johnny Duncan

Released Nov 5, 1943

1h 0m

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A young woman opens her grandfather's will when she turns 21, and someone starts murdering the heirs.

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The comic relief was irritating.

Rated: C

Jan 20, 2021

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Boneyard L

This movie is pointless as a mystery and useless as a suspense film. All of the relevant information is provided too late for the audience to solve the mystery and early on the film makes it clear that it's not playing fair. The twists and turns of the plot are often not even possible, let alone plausible, and the audience is left to simply take for granted everything that appears on screen. The acting is fine, but certainly a product of its time. This movie is a mostly unoffensive waste of time. Closest comparison: It's just another ‘mystery' in the vein of The Cat and the Canary and The Riverside Murder. Setting: Mystery Plot: Thriller Tone: Drama

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

10/02/20

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A 1940"s mystery of the times. With WWll treachery of the Japanese and Germans set the tone for the evil doings. Enjoyable watch B movie worth a watch.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/20/23

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A typical Poverty Row B Movie mystery. It has most of the elements of an Old Dark House mystery--with dust covered furniture, cobwebs, secret rooms and hidden passages along with a masked murderer, and delightfully awful members of a money hungry family. The plot is a bit choppy and the murders few. But overall, it has some nice atmospheric moments, solid acting, and was painless enough for me to watch again sometime.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/25/23

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While it's true that Mystery of the 13th Guest is a bit middle of the road, I found myself sort of enjoying the movie. It's meant to be a mix of comedy and horror, but I think the slapstick and silliness between characters pushes it a bit over the edge and it just comes off as silly most of the time. The characters aren't terribly interesting, but the story has some interesting things about it. The movie is a remake of The 13th Guest and is based upon the novel by Armitage Trail, who was the author of Scarface. A movie like this, as apposed to some of the other much broader movies of its type (I'm thinking in the vein of some Three Stooges shorts), is at least fun to watch. It's never boring and never really insulting. So it's pretty much middle of the road, but I kind of enjoyed watching it. I just wish that it was less silly. I don't mind the comedy, but it just went a bit too far for my taste.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/26/23

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William Beaudine

Director

Dick Purcell

Johnny Smith

Helen Parrish

Marie Morgan

Tim Ryan

Police Lt. Burke

Frank Faylen

Speed Dugan

Johnny Duncan

Harold Morgan

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Synopsis

A young woman opens her grandfather's will when she turns 21, and someone starts murdering the heirs.

Director: William Beaudine
Screenwriter: Tim Ryan, Charles R. Marion, Arthur Hoerl
Distributor: Monogram Pictures Corporation
Production Co: Monogram Pictures Corporation
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 5, 1943, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 1, 2016
Runtime: 1h 0m

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