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The Night of the Party

  • 1934
  • 1 Std. 1 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
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Viola Keats, Malcolm Keen, and Ernest Thesiger in The Night of the Party (1934)
Wer ist dasKriminalitätMysteryThriller

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuA major newspaper publisher dies in suspicious circumstances during a parlour game at a dinner party. The publishers secretary is the obvious suspect, but the Inspector isn't so sure ...A major newspaper publisher dies in suspicious circumstances during a parlour game at a dinner party. The publishers secretary is the obvious suspect, but the Inspector isn't so sure ...A major newspaper publisher dies in suspicious circumstances during a parlour game at a dinner party. The publishers secretary is the obvious suspect, but the Inspector isn't so sure ...

  • Regie
    • Michael Powell
  • Drehbuch
    • Roland Pertwee
    • Ralph Smart
    • John Hastings Turner
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Malcolm Keen
    • Jane Baxter
    • Leslie Banks
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  • IMDb-BEWERTUNG
    5,9/10
    269
    IHRE BEWERTUNG
    • Regie
      • Michael Powell
    • Drehbuch
      • Roland Pertwee
      • Ralph Smart
      • John Hastings Turner
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Malcolm Keen
      • Jane Baxter
      • Leslie Banks
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    • 2Kritische Rezensionen
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    Malcolm Keen
    Malcolm Keen
    • Lord Studholme
    Jane Baxter
    Jane Baxter
    • Peggy Studholme…
    Leslie Banks
    Leslie Banks
    • Sir John Holland
    Ian Hunter
    Ian Hunter
    • Guy Kennion
    Viola Keats
    Viola Keats
    • Joan Holland
    Ernest Thesiger
    Ernest Thesiger
    • Chiddiatt
    Jane Millican
    Jane Millican
    • Anna Chiddiatt
    W. Graham Brown
    • Gen. Piddinghoe
    • (as W. Graham Browne)
    Muriel Aked
    Muriel Aked
    • Princess Amelia of Corsova
    Gerald Barry
    • Baron Cziatch
    Cecil Ramage
    Cecil Ramage
    • Howard Vernon
    John Turnbull
    John Turnbull
    • Insp. Ramage
    Lawrence Anderson
    Lawrence Anderson
    • Defending Counsel
    • (as Laurence Anderson)
    Louis Goodrich
    • The Judge
    Disney Roebuck
    • Butler
    Gordon Begg
    • Miles
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Ernest Jay
    • Police Constable Taking Notes
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    Vi Kaley
    Vi Kaley
    • Mary
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    • Regie
      • Michael Powell
    • Drehbuch
      • Roland Pertwee
      • Ralph Smart
      • John Hastings Turner
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    6boblipton

    The Death of the Party

    Michael Powell was still working his way up the ranks of director with this film. Malcolm Keen is a rich man who invites a bunch of guests, all of whom have cause to want him dead, first to a party, then to a game called "Murder".... and winds up dead. It's from a stage play co-written by Roland Pertwee, and shows its origins very clearly, despite the agile camera-work of Glen McWilliams.

    Although this one-hour mystery is clearly a lesser production, it boasts a good cast, including Ian Hunter, Leslie Banks and an always amusing Ernest Thesiger. Although Michael clearly did not have the budget or time to do much more than produce a good programmer with this one, it would be only two years later that he directed his breakthrough THE EDGE OF THE WORLD, and four until he began his great collaborations with Emeric Pressburger.
    5malcolmgsw

    A Good Time Was Not Had By All

    In 1935 Gaumont British produced 14 films including such classics as The 39 Steps and First A Girl.They also decided in that year that they would make this quota quickie and handed the job to Michael Powell.What the end results show is that even a great director such as Michael Powell can not turn dross into gold.Of course any film which features the ever theatrical Ernest Theisiger can not fail in part to be entertaining but this really is a rather lame effort and clearly Powell just wanted to get it done with as quickly as he could.The denouement of this film reminds me of the Perry Mason series when in the courtroom the culprit breaks down and confesses.To be quite honest by a process of elimination it is not that difficult to guess whodunit.Muriel Aked has what must be one of her best roles.
    5davidmvining

    Releasing the tension

    Obviously inspired by Agatha Christie and her stories of Poirot, Michael Powell's The Night of the Party takes what should have been a tightly focused murder mystery and just lets out all of the tension by actually trying to follow real police procedures. What should have been a pressure cooker of tension as everyone is trapped in an enclosed location with a murderer ends up just feeling wane as police pursue one lead and then another over the course of days and weeks afterwards. It just ends up feeling like a waste of a solid setup and concept.

    Lord Studholme (Malcolm Keen) is having a party for the visiting Princess Amelia (Muriel Aked). To this party he invites a cast of characters from his daughter Peggy (Jane Baxter) to her friend Joan (Viola Keats), daughter of the police inspector Sir John (Leslie Banks), the writer Chiddiatt (Ernest Thesiger) whose work Lord Studholme's papers have regularly trashed, and Studholme's secretary, Guy (Ian Hunter) who is having a secret love affair with plans to marry Peggy. There are a handful more, but that's the real focus, everyone who could possibly have a motive for killing Lord Studholme. Though, there's extra business about John in that Lord Studholme wants to start an affair with her, but she doesn't want it while he forced her previous lover, Howard Vernon (Cecil Ramage), to sell him the love letters she had sent him.

    The movie takes its time to establish everyone, a good half-hour (out of a film that's only an hour long), and it's probably the film's greatest strength. People feel individualized and specific. People get real motives for what they could do to Lord Studholme.

    The plot turns at the party when the princess, deciding that she's bored and won't be told no, dictates that they should all play a game called Murder where, drawing cards out of a hat, one person is declared the murderer, a second the investigator, the lights should go off for ten minutes, and they should play act the murder and then the investigation. Chiddiatt jumps at the suggestion, getting behind it especially when he discovers that the princess has a gun with blanks in it, and everyone gets involved, Sir John's arrival negating the need to randomly choose someone to investigate. Of course, Lord Studholme gets murdered, and we have our suspects.

    If Christie would have written this, it'd have happened in a remote country house, not an inner city, posh apartment. No one would have been able to leave as Sir John, or Poirot, would have kept everyone there to dig into their pasts and dramatically draw out the truth of who killed him for nefarious means. Well, that's not how Powell and his writers, Roland Pertwee and John Hastings Turner, decide to play things. Sir John gets immediately sidelined when he calls his fellow police officers at Scotland Yard to take over. They let everyone go, and the investigation becomes a series of interviews about information we already know, eventually zeroing in on one of suspects because his knowledge of certain aspects makes him the most obvious suspect.

    And then we get to the courtroom scenes. I rolled my eyes instantly because courtroom scenes tacked on to the end of movies rarely work that well. They vacillate between boring and unbelievable, and at least this has the good sense to go into fully unbelievable and, one might even call it, exploitative. It's kind of amusing.

    So, the actual murder mystery feels bungled, but the character work leading up to it is interesting in and of itself. It feeds into an abbreviated courtroom bit, but it ends with a kind of ridiculous bang, a ridiculous bang that I was pretty okay with, even if it was a small moment that did little to elevate what had come before. This isn't exactly some great failure, the character work is too decently well done for that, but it is something of a wet squib when it actually gets to the murder mystery part. In terms of this quota quickie period, it's very much on the low end, but that it's still sort of okay is a testament to Powell's abilities behind the camera, I think.
    6greenbudgie

    Saved by two impish characters

    As a mystery fan I was a little disappointed by this whodunit. I was getting the upper crust characters confused with each other and there is little running time to get them and their situations sorted. But there are two distinctive characters who save the film from becoming too stuffy. They are Chidiatt the flowery writer and the slightly dotty Princess Amelia.

    Princess Amelia of Corsova is played by Muriel Aked. She's the one who proposes the game of murder in the dark. She has brought a toy gun along for the occasion. In the past she reveals that she's been told that she "can see better in the dark than any other woman I've known" by a man who has had enough experience to tell I expect. She has the best lines in the film especially when she's talking to the General.

    Chidiatt is played by Ernest Thesiger. He takes charge of Princess Amelia's toy gun as he enthusiastically joins the game of murder. At one point he says he prefers guns to flowers but I notice he carries a posy in the court scene. He gets away with murder the way he talks to the Judge. Thesiger is so thorny and witty as usual and his impishness brightens up the film.
    7khunkrumark

    Crisp hour long whodunnit!

    The film version pays its respects to the play... there's not much camera movement and no music at all. Despite that, the capable cast and brisk pace make this an enjoyable 60 minutes of movie theater. There are a few red herrings thrown in and the culprit could be anyone. There's a watchable copy on YouTube at the moment.

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      This film was believed lost, but a copy was found and was shown at the National Film Theatre, operated by the British Film Institute, in London, England, in March 2000.
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      Sir John Holland: Lord Studholme has killed himself!

      Princess Maria Amelia: Oh dear. That's rather spoiled the game hasn't it?

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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 16. Juli 1935 (Vereinigtes Königreich)
    • Herkunftsland
      • Vereinigtes Königreich
    • Sprache
      • Englisch
    • Auch bekannt als
      • The Murder Party
    • Drehorte
      • Gainsborough Studios, Shepherd's Bush, London, England, Vereinigtes Königreich
    • Produktionsfirma
      • Gaumont British Picture Corporation
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      • 12.500 £ (geschätzt)
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      • 1 Std. 1 Min.(61 min)
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      • Black and White
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      • B.A.F. Sound System
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