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Information
- Year
- 1933
- Runtime
- 73 min.
- Director
- Michael Curtiz
- Genre
- Mystery
- Rating *
- 7.0
- Votes *
- 2,315
- Checks
- 262
- Favs
- 5
- Dislikes
- 3
- Favs/checks
- 1.9% (1:52)
- Favs/dislikes
- 2:1
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Siskoid
Philo Vance is no Thin Man, but I'll probably watch William Powell in anything. The Kennel Murder Case is his fourth Vance movie, an intriguing locked room mystery where everyone is a suspect - the dead man seems to have decided to piss off everyone in his life on the same day, and indeed, it looks like pulled an Orient Express on him - and Powell effortlessly moves from room to room, and suspect to suspect, gathering clues and revising theories. Pleasant enough, though it only really works as a how-done-it, and not a whodunit. See, when everyone could conceivably have a motive, and everyone could have probably pulled off the complicated crime as Vance describes it, then you could film four or more endings, like Clue, and they would all make about as much sense. Underwhelmed by the solution, or let's say that part of the solution, but not a bad way to spend a little over an hour until then. Warning: Fake violence towards dogs. 5 years ago -
