An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case.An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case.An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case.
Phillip Trent
- Larry King
- (as Clifford Jones)
Charles Brinley
- Electrician
- (uncredited)
A.S. 'Pop' Byron
- Detective #3
- (uncredited)
Stephen Chase
- Wallach
- (uncredited)
Jack Cheatham
- Motorcycle Officer
- (uncredited)
Edmund Cobb
- Electrician
- (uncredited)
Kernan Cripps
- Gateman
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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Did you know
- TriviaActors Philip Trent and Ralph Bellamy were very nervous about the heights they had to perform and required a crane to place them on a catwalk. When no stuntman could be found to perform a particularly dangerous stunt, an extra was used. He broke his back.
- ConnectionsFollowed by One Is Guilty (1934)
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Murder on the movie set
Movie star Helen Stanley is jumpy, nervous. She checks the gun in her dressing room desk drawer. She calls up her friend Inspector Trent and urges him to come to the studio. By the time Trent arrives, Helen Stanley has been murdered while filming a dance scene. Inspector Trent investigates.
Gail Patrick is only on screen for about 15 minutes as the temperamental Helen Stanley, but that's plenty of time for Patrick to establish her character as one of those mercurial celebrities who race through life making enemies.
It's up to Ralph Bellamy, as Inspector Trent, to sort through those enemies and identify which of them is the murderer. His long list of suspects includes everyone on the set--cameraman, director, bodyguard, crew members. Shirley Grey has a nice role as a script girl who is engaged to cameraman Kane Richmond. Lucien Prival is the veteran movie director, Phillip Trent an assistant, Bradley Page an agent, Ward Bond a crew member--and all seemingly had reasons to do away with the much-hated actress.
Bellamy is fairly low-key as the pipe-chewing Inspector Trent. He offers a few nuggets of detective wisdom ("Those open and shut cases sometimes are the toughest ones to crack") but mainly hangs around the studio asking the obvious questions. That leaves the focus on plot, which along with all of those suspects involves a lost diary and a missing murder weapon. It all moves fairly quickly from one short scene to the next. Overall it's pretty standard, a reliably entertaining B mystery.
Gail Patrick is only on screen for about 15 minutes as the temperamental Helen Stanley, but that's plenty of time for Patrick to establish her character as one of those mercurial celebrities who race through life making enemies.
It's up to Ralph Bellamy, as Inspector Trent, to sort through those enemies and identify which of them is the murderer. His long list of suspects includes everyone on the set--cameraman, director, bodyguard, crew members. Shirley Grey has a nice role as a script girl who is engaged to cameraman Kane Richmond. Lucien Prival is the veteran movie director, Phillip Trent an assistant, Bradley Page an agent, Ward Bond a crew member--and all seemingly had reasons to do away with the much-hated actress.
Bellamy is fairly low-key as the pipe-chewing Inspector Trent. He offers a few nuggets of detective wisdom ("Those open and shut cases sometimes are the toughest ones to crack") but mainly hangs around the studio asking the obvious questions. That leaves the focus on plot, which along with all of those suspects involves a lost diary and a missing murder weapon. It all moves fairly quickly from one short scene to the next. Overall it's pretty standard, a reliably entertaining B mystery.
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- Jul 5, 2019
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- Runtime58 minutes
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By what name was The Crime of Helen Stanley (1934) officially released in India in English?
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