Alibi for Murder is a B movie starring William Gargan, Marguerite Churchill, and Gene Morgan.
Gargan plays a reporter, Perry Travis, who has his own radio show. Interestingly, he is present at a Hindenburgh landing, as he wants an interview with an industrialist, Foster (William Worthington). He can't get near the man, thanks to Foster's secretary Lois (Churchill).
As a side note, I kept waiting for the Hindenbergh to burst into flames, but then I realized that was a year later.
Travis doesn't give up trying to get to Foster. He heads for the man's estate. However, when he arrives, a shot rings out, and Foster is found dead, presumably by suicide. Travis believes otherwise.
It turns out that Foster was an arms manufacturer. In fact, a male secretary (Dwight Frye) refers to him as a "wholesale stealer of death." Some dialogue, but who better to deliver it than the man who played Renfield in "Dracula."
Travis was led to believe, by a visitor to his office, that he had invented a formula, biopepsid, that was going to be sock-o for pharmacists. The visitor, in fact, was posing as a pharmaceutical employee and really wanted information on Foster's inventions, one of which appears to have been a poison gas.
Okay mystery. My main interest in this was the fast-talking Gargan. When I was a kid, he received a tremendous amount of publicity because his voice box had to be removed as the result of cancer. He thereafter used an artificial voice box. He spent his remaining 21 years as a spokesman for the American Cancer Society.
Gargan plays a reporter, Perry Travis, who has his own radio show. Interestingly, he is present at a Hindenburgh landing, as he wants an interview with an industrialist, Foster (William Worthington). He can't get near the man, thanks to Foster's secretary Lois (Churchill).
As a side note, I kept waiting for the Hindenbergh to burst into flames, but then I realized that was a year later.
Travis doesn't give up trying to get to Foster. He heads for the man's estate. However, when he arrives, a shot rings out, and Foster is found dead, presumably by suicide. Travis believes otherwise.
It turns out that Foster was an arms manufacturer. In fact, a male secretary (Dwight Frye) refers to him as a "wholesale stealer of death." Some dialogue, but who better to deliver it than the man who played Renfield in "Dracula."
Travis was led to believe, by a visitor to his office, that he had invented a formula, biopepsid, that was going to be sock-o for pharmacists. The visitor, in fact, was posing as a pharmaceutical employee and really wanted information on Foster's inventions, one of which appears to have been a poison gas.
Okay mystery. My main interest in this was the fast-talking Gargan. When I was a kid, he received a tremendous amount of publicity because his voice box had to be removed as the result of cancer. He thereafter used an artificial voice box. He spent his remaining 21 years as a spokesman for the American Cancer Society.
