Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Blucher One of the worst movies I've ever seen

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Michael_Elliott A Shriek in the Night (1933) ** 1/2 (out of 4)Reporter Pat Morgan (Ginger Rogers) is fired from her job after scoring a big scoop but accidentally giving it to the rival newspaper. That rival newspaper's reporter Ted Kord (Lyle Talbot) agrees to work with Pat as they investigate some bizarre murders taking place at an apartment complex.A SHRIEK IN THE NIGHT will never be mistaken for the work of Alfred Hitchcock or Roman Polanski but considering it's small budget the film manages to be entertaining from the opening scene to the closing credits. A lot of the credit needs to go to a rather good screenplay but also the two leads who certainly help keep the film moving with their comic banter.I say comic banter but perhaps the better word would be the back- and-forth flirting. If you're familiar with the early part of 30s cinema then you already know that there were countless mystery or detective films. This one here sets itself apart because it has Rogers right before she became a huge Hollywood star and Talbot as well, years before his decline into films like PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE (which I love).Rogers and Talbot are certainly the main reasons to watch this film as they work well with one another but they are given a screenplay that offers up some smart dialogue and funny situations. The comedy aspect is kept on the low but the mystery itself is quite good and holds your attention as well.A SHRIEK IN THE NIGHT isn't a classic but it's certainly worth watching.

mark.waltz The opening seconds of this Z-Grade melodrama promise more than the rest of the film delivers. A body flies out of a window. Suicide or murder? That's what two friendly reporters on rival newspapers want to know. They are Ginger Rogers and Lyle Talbot whose initial sparring (that predictably leads to romance) is one of the only amusing things in this creaky crime drama that needed to be oiled, even back in 1933. Frequent lulls of no dialogue or action slow this down to a turtle race. Sudden uses of shadows to show a murderer in a gas mask or darkly lit scenes of mayhem can't help this rise past mediocrity. Rogers, fresh from another Z-Grade melodrama ("The Thirteenth Guest") must have either been bored or broke, or waiting for dance rehearsals to start so she could learn "The Carioca" for "Flying Down to Rio".Louise Beavers adds a bit of amusement as the feisty maid who declares, "Yes, I ain't going' in!" (to a morgue), insisting that she's seen enough dead bodies in one day to last her a lifetime, and agreeing to go to jail, preferring to be with live people than dead ones in a freezer. This seems like one of those slow-moving melodramatic plays that toured around the United States and England's smaller communities prior to the invention of movies.

dbdumonteil Mainly interesting for Ginger Rodgers ' presence:she plays a journalist who becomes a young Miss Marple to investigate a dark case which features suicide (?) ,drowning,murders .It's a strange mixture of whodunit (the culprit ,for once,is not easy to guess ) of gangsters and of journalists vying for scoops (poor Rodgers gets fired because of one of her colleagues' cheap trick).Made on a shoestring budget (there are three or four rooms in the whole movie), the only way they use to create fear is the dark,and it always works ,mainly during the last scenes.The cards with the snake are quite Doylesque .So is the way the murderer does away with his victims.

kidboots Ginger Rogers made lots of movies when she was just starting out. But for every "42nd Street" (1933) or "The Gay Divorcée" (1934) there was a "Broadway Bad" (1933) or a "Hat Check Girl" (1932). From the start she was determined to be noticed and by very hard work and a cute personality - she was!!!Ginger and Lyle Talbot make a cute team as rival reporters trying to get the scoop on a would-be suicide. They actually dated in real life, so I read.A scream (or yell) is heard, a body falls to the pavement and so this comedy mystery begins. Ginger plays Pat Morgan, Mr. Harker's (the dead man) live-in secretary. She is really a reporter put in as a plant to find out if Harker was really a phlanthrophist or an under- world figure. Lillian Harmer provides some laboured comedy relief as Mr. Harker's maid.More bodies turn up - Mrs. Colby, in the apartment that Mr. Harker met his death -and Mr. Colby is also found dead. The janitor (Harvey Clark) is acting suspicious - continually cutting the power supply to the different apartments so he can snoop around. Maurice Black, who often played ethnic types, is the gangster Martini. Arthur Hoyt plays Wilfred, the chief detective's right hand man, who is the butt of much of the humour. Louise Beavers has a small part as the Colby's maid.It is all explained in the end but not before Ginger almost ends up in a fiery grave.