She spends her time playing the organ and playing cribbage with the butler. Collier is a delight as the imposing dowager who hasn't left the house in 20 years (after her heart was broken). Hinds as the lawyer, Bert Roach as a detective, and Bernard Siegel as Ehrhardt. Co-stars include Betty Furness as Page's fiancée, Isabel Jewell as a nightclub singer, Edward Brophy and Paul Hurst as cops, Ivan Simpson as the beleaguered butler, Regis Toomey as a reporter, Arthur Byron as Furness' father, Samuel S.

As usual, there are many suspects involved with the dead guy, and everyone had a reason to kill him. When a sleazy, abusive producer (Bradley Page) gets shot, the cops immediately zero in on the most obvious (and innocent) suspects and ignore all logic. Collier's talkie debut starts out slowly, but she takes over the second half of the film when she (a famous recluse) leaves the house to solve a murder that implicates for nephew (Cortez) and his fiancée (Bruce). She hadn't made a film since 1922 when she co-starred with Ivor Novello and Gladys Cooper in THE BOHEMIAN GIRL.

What’s not to love about this episode? For superb java, zip on over to and you can save 10% on your very 1st order if you use the promo code “Top100Project”.Indomitable Constance Collier made her talkie debut at age 57 in this 1935 film for MGM and gets third billing behind Ricardo Cortez and Virginia Bruce. Ryan gets to bust out his worse-than-mediocre impression.

Bev’s also got intriguing theories about Uncle Charlie’s true identity and about Hitchcock’s possible contempt for America during WWII.

This flick has some of The Master’s best-ever devious subtext. Rated R, but only for some extreme vulgarity at the very end.įor the 102nd Next 100 Project podcast (and our 248th podcast overall), we dive into “Fred” Hitchcock’s supposedly favourite movie with all its squirm-inducing sexual innuendo.

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