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Russell Hopton, Cecilia Parker, and Theodore von Eltz in Below the Deadline (1936)

Review by boblipton

Below the Deadline

5/10

Good Idea, But Some Flaws

Ambitious cop Russell Hopton and jewel merchant's secretary Cecilia Parker are in love. Her boss is planning on a big shipment, which attractts Theodore von Eltz, the head of a jewelry-thief ring. Miss Parker attracts him too, so he works out an elaborate plan to frame Hopton for the robbery. It works. Hopton is arrested, escapes, and winds up in a train crash.

It's an elaborately plotted movie from ambitious Poverty Row producer Chesterfield. It's directed at a good clip by Charles Lamont, but there are a couple of problems. The first is that 36-year-old Hopton looks too old to play a 26-year-old Oirish beat cop, and the other is in the script by Ewart Adamson. It plods, making sure that every plot point is painstakingly laid out, and then further larded with not very interesting banter. At barely over an hour, it looks like it was padded.
  • boblipton
  • Oct 26, 2019

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