Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Abegail Noëlle While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

MartinHafer "Mystery of Marie Roget" is a sub-par B-movie from Universal. While the story purports to be from the Edgar Allan Poe story, it's really very different.When the film begins, Marie has been reported missing and the police have so far found nothing. They do eventually find a corpse that MIGHT be her...but her face is missing. When they tell her family that they've found her, she then walks in the house...so the corpse obviously was NOT her. However, eventually Marie really is murdered and it's up to Poe's Dupin character (Patric Knowles) to solve the murder. As for Dupin, he's a know-it-all who acts a lot like the movie version of Sherlock Holmes and has a partner (Lloyd Corrigan) who is even stupider and more useless than the movie version of Watson. In fact, he's such a bumbling moron that it totally ruins the movie...as does Dupin's bizarre manner in which he investigates. Overall, just a silly and inconsequential B murder mystery--complete with all the usual clichés and plot problems. A time-passer at best...but you could easily do better.

mark.waltz Certainly, the nasty Marie Roget deserved to pay for her sins. Determined to kill her step-sister, she creates a nefarious scheme to fulfill her goals. Having already defied death once, she presumably ends up a corpse again, and a diary left behind gives evidence to who may have knocked her off for real. Any number of suspects could be the killer including her accomplice or even her wealthy grandmother. Or perhaps even the good step-sister.Rising star Maria Montez had not yet hit cult status when she was given top billing but basically a supporting role in this version of the Edgar Allan Poe short story that even makes reference to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" which Universal had made just a decade before. Montez isn't a great actress by any means, but she's perfectly haughty and sneers convincingly. Maria Ouspenskaya hams it up as the matronly grandmother ordering everyone around. Patric Knowles leads the case while Nell O'Day is appropriately fragile. The best performance is Lloyd Corrigan's who plays a befuddled detective who is actually smarter than he seems to be. Some genuine thrills, a fine atmospheric structure and just a hint of Gothic horror makes this a must even though some details added to the plot seem unnecessary.

kevin olzak 1942's "Mystery of Marie Roget" was not only Poe's sequel to "Murders in the Rue Morgue," but also Universal's. Leon Ames' Pierre Dupin, medical student, is now Dr. Paul Dupin, a rare leading role for the likable Patric Knowles, fresh from "The Wolf Man," the story set in 1889 Paris (1932's "Rue Morgue" was set in 1845 Paris). The nominal star, Maria Montez, on the cusp of stardom, doesn't have much of a showcase as the scheming, one-dimensional Marie Roget, who wants her younger sister Camille (Nell O'Day) dead before her 21st birthday. Missing for 10 days and presumed dead by the authorities, Marie doesn't exactly endear herself to anyone after she suddenly turns up, unwilling to divulge where she'd been; is it any surprise that she winds up murdered instead of Camille? Also from "The Wolf Man," Maria Ouspenskaya again proves a scene stealer, barking demands with a slinky leopard by her side. The low key Knowles makes a rather unorthodox detective, using forensics and grave robbing to find the proper solution (a shame there are too few suspects). The excellent supporting cast also includes John Litel, Lloyd Corrigan, Charles Middleton, Reed Hadley, and Frank Reicher. Curiously, although part of television's SHOCK! package, "Mystery of Marie Roget" never aired on Pittsburgh's Chiller Theater, but did appear on channel 11 annually during the 1980s, after CT had come to an end by Jan 1 1984.

dbborroughs Singer Marie Roget goes missing and is believed dead. She then mysteriously reappears after 10 days. Not long after her reappearance her grand mother hears her planning to do in her step sister and calls in ace detective Paul Dupin of the Paris police force. Unfaithful adaption of the Edgar Allan Poe story is a rip roaring mystery with twists and turns aplenty as murder and mayhem put the Roget family in danger. This is a movie thats perfect when you want a solid little mystery that moves along so quickly that you really don't have time to think. It starts and just zips straight to the end in ways that many other mysteries of the time don't. Worth a look.