Murder at the Vanities
(El crimen del Vanities)
(USA, 1934) [B/N, m.].
Género: Musical, Comedia policíaca, Misterio / Whodunit.
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Ficha técnica.
Dirección: Mitchell Leisen
Argumento: Earl Carroll, Rufus King (teatro, 1933).
Guión: Joseph Gollomb, Carey Wilson / Sam Hellman (diálogos) / Jack Cunningham (no acreditado).
Fotografía: Leo Tover (B&W).
Música: Howard Jackson, William E. Lynch, Milan Roder (no acreditados).
Producción: E. Lloyd Sheldon (no acreditado).
Productora: Paramount Pictures.
: Carl Brisson (Eric Lander), Victor McLaglen (Bill Murdock), Jack Oakie (Jack Ellery), Kitty Carlisle (Anne Ware), Dorothy Stickney (Norma Watson), Gertrude Michael (Rita Ross), Gail Patrick (Sadie Evans), Jessie Ralph (Mrs. Helen Smith), Charles B. Middleton (Homer Boothby), Donald Meek (Dr. Saunders), Lona Andre (Lona), Beryl Wallace (Beryl), William Arnold (Treasurer), Hal Greene (Call Boy), Ruth Hilliard, Ann Sheridan (Lou), Teru Shimada (), Otto Hoffman (Walsh), Duke Ellington & His Orchestra (Themselves), Cecil Weston (Miss Bernstein), Dorothy White (Dancer), Gwenllian Gill (Gwen), Stanley Blystone (Policeman), Colin Tapley (Stage Manager), Barbara Fritchie (Vivien), Charles McAvoy (Ben), Wanda Perry, Anya Taranda (Earl Carroll Girls), Toby Wing (Nancy)
Sinopsis: Agradable film de intriga con un fuerte componente musical que adaptaba una obra teatral de Earl Carroll y Rufus King. Un crimen cometido la noche del estreno de un musical daba pie a una apañada trama que combinaba con notable habilidad las pesquisas policiales y los números musicales. A destacar la presencia de la orquesta de Duke Ellington. (Fotogramas)
Adaptación al cine de una popular obra de Broadway escrita por Earl Carroll. Aunando suspense y canciones, encontramos a un detective (Victor McLaglen) que investiga una serie de asesinatos en el marco de un espectáculo musical que acaba de estrenarse. Por supuesto, al final el culpable es quien menos se imagina el espectador, en la mejor tradición del género. Entre los números musicales sobresale la aparición de Duke Ellington y su orquesta interpretando, junto a Gertrude Michael, una curiosa versión de la Segunda Rapsodia Húngara de Liszt.
Fue una de las primeras películas del director Mitchell Leisen (1898-1972), uno de los descubrimientos de la comedia de la edad de oro gracias a
Medianoche (1939), aunque después es cierto que contó con título irregulares que le hicieron perder parte del prestigio ganado (
DeCine21).
AMG SYNOPSIS: The Earl Carroll Vanities, a popular Broadway revue of the 1930s and '40s, is the setting for this murder mystery interspersed with an assortment of variety acts, including Duke Ellington performing "Ebony Rhapsody" and a novelty number called "Marijuana." Victor McLaglen stars as Bill Murdock, a detective investigating a series of murders during the opening night of a new edition of the Vanities. When private detective Sadie Evans (Gail Patrick) is found murdered, Murdock must investigate between musical numbers to find the killer. When Rita Rose (Gertrude Michael) next turns up dead, Murdock concludes young ingenue Ann Ware (Kitty Carlisle) is the next person marked for death. Murdock has to find the murderer before the ending of the show or else he or she could disappear in the departing crowd of theatergoers. -- Paul Brenner
AMG REVIEW: One of the more notorious of the pre-Code films, Murder at the Vanities is not a great film by any means, but it's a great deal of fun. Combining the musical and murder mystery genres was an interesting idea, and it works fairly well, despite a screenplay that, a few great wisecracks aside, is fairly lame. The story is delightfully lurid, but not especially well written, with red herrings thrown in willy-nilly yet still not able to make the unmasking of the killer a surprise. Vanities also has some terribly wooden acting from Kitty Carlisle and Carl Brisson (although both are in good voice for their musical numbers) and a disappointingly dull performance from Victor McLaglen. Jack Oakie is fun, Toby Wing livens things occasionally, and Dorothy Stickney has some good moments, but the real fun in Murder is in the musical numbers. "Cocktails for Two" is the score's "standard," but there's more fun to be had from the feather-filled "Live and Love Tonight" and even more fun from the film's two highlights, "Marihuana" and "Ebony Rhapsody." The former is a surreal reefer number featuring gigantic cacti (the flowers of which contain nude women) and a delirious, desire-laden Gertrude Michael performance; the latter is a bizarre desecration of the "Hungarian Rhapsody," with a swinging Duke Ellington performance, that ends with an actor portraying Franz Liszt gunning down the cast. These numbers alone, so strange and so utterly fantastic, make the film worth catching. -- Craig Butler
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(*) En varios almacenes circulan unos
subs en inglés que, en realidad, son de "
Hot Saturday" (William A. Seiter, 1932).
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Sexo, crimen, conflicto:
Cine y censura en la era dorada de Hollywood (en preparación)
Saludos.
perdona si he sonado un poco borde.
He utilizado los subtítulos corregidos por el compañero Graveland. Muchísimas gracias. 
