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The Death Kiss

  • 1932
  • Passed
  • 1 Std. 15 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
6,0/10
1614
IHRE BEWERTUNG
Bela Lugosi and Adrienne Ames in The Death Kiss (1932)
Wer ist dasDramaKomödieKriminalitätMysteryRomanzeThriller

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuMurder during film shoot sparks search for a killer.Murder during film shoot sparks search for a killer.Murder during film shoot sparks search for a killer.

  • Regie
    • Edwin L. Marin
  • Drehbuch
    • Madelon St. Dennis
    • Barry Barringer
    • Gordon Kahn
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Bela Lugosi
    • David Manners
    • Adrienne Ames
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  • IMDb-BEWERTUNG
    6,0/10
    1614
    IHRE BEWERTUNG
    • Regie
      • Edwin L. Marin
    • Drehbuch
      • Madelon St. Dennis
      • Barry Barringer
      • Gordon Kahn
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Bela Lugosi
      • David Manners
      • Adrienne Ames
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    • 39Kritische Rezensionen
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    Bela Lugosi
    Bela Lugosi
    • Joseph Steiner
    David Manners
    David Manners
    • Franklyn Drew
    Adrienne Ames
    Adrienne Ames
    • Marcia Lane
    John Wray
    John Wray
    • Detective Lt . Sheehan
    Vince Barnett
    Vince Barnett
    • Officer Gulliver
    Alexander Carr
    • Leon A. Grossmith
    Edward Van Sloan
    Edward Van Sloan
    • Tom Avery
    Harold Minjir
    Harold Minjir
    • Howell
    Barbara Bedford
    Barbara Bedford
    • Script Girl
    Al Hill
    Al Hill
    • Assistant Director
    Harold Waldridge
    Harold Waldridge
    • Charlie
    • (as Harold Waldrige)
    Wade Boteler
    Wade Boteler
    • Sgt. Hilliker
    Lee Moran
    Lee Moran
    • Todd
    King Baggot
    King Baggot
    • Al Payne
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    Morgan Brown
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    • Regie
      • Edwin L. Marin
    • Drehbuch
      • Madelon St. Dennis
      • Barry Barringer
      • Gordon Kahn
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    5Space_Mafune

    Fanciful Murder Mystery

    I've got to admit my initial attraction to this movie was the fact that Bela Lugosi was in it...going in for that reason, this film will prove a disappointment as Bela's role is a relatively short one.

    Despite this, I have to admit to enjoying this somewhat fanciful murder mystery which has the detective writer as the hero and ultimately a more competent detective than the real thing. This story about a murder on a movie set still feels more like a movie than real life..but the murder mystery does keep you guessing and interested which means it's certainly worth a watch.
    tedg

    Write the Movie

    Here's another important early detective movie. It is important because it is early in the life of talkies (just two years after, really); it is a mystery (which was just being invented cinematically); and it is "folded."

    That last means that it is a movie. And it is about a movie. All the characters except the hapless police detective are part of the movie within, which is also called "The Death Kiss." That designated detective is our usual surrogate: in the outer film trying to suss out the inner.

    The murder in question is a murder in the movie within that is "real," meaning it is also in the outer movie. The real detective turns out to be the writer of the inner movie. I am not sure if this is the first appearance of this particular device. I would appreciate hearing if it is not. If it is, this film is of enormous importance. If not, it is still important, though for enjoyment purposes, well its pretty far down the list.

    I'm tentatively making this a "worth watching," but if I confirm that it is the first talking with a movie with written by the same guy that writes the outer movie, I'll elevate it to a four.

    Ted's Evaluation -- 3 of 3: Worth watching.
    dougdoepke

    Behind the Scenes

    So who fiddled with the props. Heart-throb actor Brent was only supposed to get shot with blanks. But now he lies on the sound stage floor, deader than the proverbial doornail.

    As a whodunit, the movie's only moderately interesting. As a peek inside a filming crew, the movie's fascinating. But as a subtext of studio politics, the movie's a subtle insider glimpse.

    To me, the film's highpoint comes when the studio head Grossmith stumbles for words for the press, only to be interrupted by his flowery pr man who dishes out the pr pablum in high-falutin' style. I'm wondering how much of that is aimed at the relatively uneducated likes of Louis B. Mayer at MGM or Jack Warner at Warner Bros. Then too, note how the real crime-solving sleuth is not an executive type, but a screenwriter (Manners) instead. Now how do you suppose that decision ended up in the script. Sometimes being a lowly screenwriter has its hidden perks.

    Anyway, it's certainly different to catch Lugosi not making a meal out of somebody's neck. Still, I kept wanting to tell people not to stand too close. Then there' s the luscious Adrienne Ames (Marcia) who can go toe-to-toe with any Hollywood beauty of that day or this. Too bad she died so young. And, of course, there's Manners who started out as annoyingly smug when outsmarting the coppers. I'm glad he eased eventually into someone more likable.

    All in all, the movie's worth catching up with for its insider look at movie-making, 1930's style.
    6lugonian

    The Studio Murder Mystery

    "The Death Kiss" (Tiffany, 1932), directed by Edwin L. Marin, might have been a very interesting vampire movie, but instead, the director fools his movie audience by revealing, from the very first few minutes into the story, to be an inside study at the behind the scenes look in movie making, combining murder mystery with comedy, but not all too successfully. The main interest is not in the "who done it" plot itself, but on its three major actors, David Manners, Bela Lugosi and Edward Van Sloan, better known today for their performances in director Tod Browning's thriller, "Dracula" (Universal, 1931), with Lugosi as the title-role character-star with Manners and Van Sloan in support. In this reunion, Manners takes center stage over Lugosi and Van Sloan in smaller roles. Although Lugosi is not in every scene, he does make his presence felt throughout its 70 minute venture.

    The fade-in of "The Death Kiss" opens outside a ritzy nightspot where a woman is to mark a certain man for death by kissing him in the lobby of a fashionable apartment building. Moments later, gun shots are fired by passing mobsters, killing the man in question, followed by a crowd gathering. Then the camera pulls away, revealing the sound stage and focusing on the behind-the-scenes crew consisting of a script girl, cameramen, assistant director, and director (Edward Van Sloan) who wants to have a retake, feeling that the death scene did not look realistic enough. Hollywood realism sets in when moments later, it is revealed that the actor, Myles Brent (Edmund Burns), the doomed character in the production of THE DEATH KISS, has actually been shot and killed. Top-billed David Manners as Franklin Drew, a mystery writer, steps into the picture trying to solve the murder in order to prevent the leading lady, Marcia Lane (Adrienne Ames), whom he has become interested, from becoming the prime suspect. Detectives are called in, and after a few more murders at the movie studio, Drew draws to his own conclusions as the detectives (and the viewers) become baffled before the killer is revealed.

    The supporting cast includes Bela Lugosi as Joseph Steiner, president of the Tonart movie studio; Edward Van Sloan as Tom Avery, the film director; John Wray as Detective Sheehan; Vince Barnett as Officer Gulliver, affectionately called "a Keystone Cop" due to his buffoonery; Alexander Carr as the accented Leon A. Grossmith; with Barbara Bedford as the script girl; and Harold Waldridge as Charlie, the bellboy, among others.

    A rediscovered "poverty row" mystery that enjoyed frequent revivals during the early years of cable television in the 1980s, "The Death Kiss" recently has been restored with hand-tinted red color sequences used in parts with studio lights and gun shots, but otherwise a routinely old-fashioned mystery from the short-lived Tiffany Studios and not by Universal. A public domain title, "The Death Kiss" has been available on video cassette by numerous distributors in the 1980s. Currently, the best clear and sounding print can be found on both restored video copies and/or from Turner Classic Movies where it airs in October in honor of Halloween.

    Although the storyline can be confusing at times, with director Edwin L. Marin continuing to play tricks on his movie audience (as with his opening scene and movie title) by keeping them guessing, with the "comedy relief" turning out not to be all that amusing, "The Death Kiss" in turn is a likable little time filler from the bygone days of Hollywood.(*1/2)
    7AlsExGal

    It was an unexpected pleasure

    Although it reunites Bela Lugosi, David Manners, and Edward Van Sloan, the noted stars of Universal's hit DRACULA from the year before, this Edward L. Marin picture shot at the Tiffany Studio for World Wide Pictures is not a horror film. Instead it is a nifty, fast-paced little murder-mystery set in a movie studio, with decent production values including exemplary cinematography and editing for such a low-budget ($50,000) production, along with competent, effective performances from a cast of a few name stars and countless Hollywood veterans, including a number of former silent stars past their prime who had become reduced to character roles and bit parts after the coming of sound. Showing up in notable bits are King Baggot, Ralph Lewis, Barbara Bedford, Spec O'Donnell, Mona Maris, and more

    The plot gets off to an intriguing start with the sequence responsible for the film's title. In a fancy car outside a swanky hotel as people exit in dressy evening attire, a classy, attractive woman (Adrienne Ames) tells some gangsters that their mark is the man she's about to kiss. It all looks like an energetic Precode gangster film is about to begin. When the woman kisses the pleasantly confused man and walks off, he's immediately gunned down and the camera pans over to the director and crew filming the scene. The director (Edward Van Sloan) says it looked awful and needs a retake, but they quickly discover that the actor is actually dead from a gunshot wound and the mystery begins.

    A young scenario writer who specializes in detective stories (David Manners) is eager to try solving the crime himself, especially since he's in love with the actress, who happens to be the main suspect because she's the ex-wife of the not very well-liked dead actor and is still his life insurance beneficiary. The police (John Wray and Wade Boteler) arrive and get on the case but naturally the screenwriter is always a step ahead of them, often assisted by the comical studio security cop (Vince Barnett). Bela Lugosi gets a chance for a straight dramatic role as a studio executive who like several other studio personnel and/or their spouses, also has motives for getting rid of the actor, a notorious ladies' man.

    While it may often seem a routine who-done-it, the script cleverly sets up numerous red herrings and misleading clues, and provides enjoyable moments of Pre-code Prohibition-era banter, satiric Hollywood in-jokes, and cutesy comic shtick. Also, the location filming gives a revealing glimpse behind the scenes inside a real movie studio, not only sound stages but screening room, projection booth, dressing rooms, bungalows, garage, makeup and electrical departments, etc., that raise it above average interest for any film buffs.

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      Kino Lorber films has released a Blu-Ray version of the film from an existing 35 mm print with missing scenes and the color hand tinted segments restored.
    • Patzer
      About 12 minutes into the movie Franklyn Drew digs a bullet out of the wall and identifies it as a ".38 caliber center fire." It is impossible to tell from the bullet alone whether it was fired from a center fire or rim fire cartridge. Such a claim could lead to confusion in identifying the gun that fired the bullet.
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      Officer Gulliver: Mr. Drew, I've been thinking.

      Franklyn Drew: No!

      Officer Gulliver: Yeah. The first thing I ask myself when I investigates a murder is 'who done it'.

      Franklyn Drew: Well that sounds logical.

      Officer Gulliver: And the next thing I ask myself is 'who could do it.'

      Franklyn Drew: And then?

      Officer Gulliver: Then I ask myself again 'who wanted to do it.'

      Franklyn Drew: And how do you answer yourself?

      Officer Gulliver: Well... I ain't come to that yet.

    • Verbindungen
      Featured in Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula (1997)

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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 8. Januar 1933 (Vereinigte Staaten)
    • Herkunftsland
      • Vereinigte Staaten
    • Sprache
      • Englisch
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      • El beso de la muerte
    • Drehorte
      • California Tiffany Studios - 4516 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, Los Angeles, Kalifornien, USA(Studio)
    • Produktionsfirma
      • K.B.S. Productions Inc.
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      • 1 Std. 15 Min.(75 min)
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