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Green Eyes

  • 1934
  • Passed
  • 1h 8m
IMDb RATING
5.2/10
384
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William Bakewell, Claude Gillingwater, Shirley Grey, and Charles Starrett in Green Eyes (1934)
Mystery

The owner of a large mansion in the country throws a costume party for some of his friends, but the party turns sour when he is found stabbed to death in a closet. The police and a guest try... Read allThe owner of a large mansion in the country throws a costume party for some of his friends, but the party turns sour when he is found stabbed to death in a closet. The police and a guest try to discover who committed the murder.The owner of a large mansion in the country throws a costume party for some of his friends, but the party turns sour when he is found stabbed to death in a closet. The police and a guest try to discover who committed the murder.

  • Director
    • Richard Thorpe
  • Writer
    • H. Ashbrook
  • Stars
    • Shirley Grey
    • Charles Starrett
    • Claude Gillingwater
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.2/10
    384
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Richard Thorpe
    • Writer
      • H. Ashbrook
    • Stars
      • Shirley Grey
      • Charles Starrett
      • Claude Gillingwater
    • 21User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
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    Shirley Grey
    Shirley Grey
    • Jean Kester
    Charles Starrett
    Charles Starrett
    • Michael Tracy
    Claude Gillingwater
    Claude Gillingwater
    • Steven Kester
    John Wray
    John Wray
    • Inspector Crofton
    William Bakewell
    William Bakewell
    • Cliff Miller
    Dorothy Revier
    Dorothy Revier
    • Mrs. Pritchard
    Stephen Chase
    Stephen Chase
    • Mr. Pritchard
    • (as Alden Chase)
    Ben Hendricks Jr.
    • Detective Regan
    Arthur Clayton
    Arthur Clayton
    • Roger Hall
    Aggie Herring
    Aggie Herring
    • Dora - Kester Housekeeper
    Elmer Ballard
    • Lenox - Kester Butler
    Edward Keane
    • Raynor
    • (as Edward Keene)
    John Elliott
    John Elliott
    • Chemist
    • (uncredited)
    Robert Frazer
    Robert Frazer
    • Broker
    • (uncredited)
    Frank Hagney
    Frank Hagney
    • Motorcycle Policeman
    • (uncredited)
    Frank LaRue
    Frank LaRue
    • Medical Examiner
    • (uncredited)
    Edward LeSaint
    Edward LeSaint
    • Banker
    • (uncredited)
    Lloyd Whitlock
    Lloyd Whitlock
    • Bertram F. Howe - Lawyer
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Richard Thorpe
    • Writer
      • H. Ashbrook
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    Dethcharm

    "Your Insinuation Is Unjustified, Mr. Tracy!"...

    GREEN EYES opens with a costume party gone wrong, when the host is found stabbed to death. With his granddaughter as a handy suspect, the police believe they've quickly solved the crime. Obviously, that would result in a 5 minute movie, so, the cops wind up with a houseful of suspects instead.

    The bulk of the film is taken up with the grilling of these people by Inspector Crofton (John Wray). While it's not a bad movie, anyone expecting a fast-paced movie packed with oddball characters spouting snappy 1930's-style dialogue could be disappointed. On the bright side, the story is interesting enough and gets sewn up nicely...
    6Bezenby

    I'll admit: I'm a novice with these films

    I'm not that familiar with the mystery genre or era (1930s) at all, but I quite liked this murder mystery. Some old guy gets bumped off during a fancy dress party and stuffed in a cupboard, and it's up to the police and a smug murder mystery writer to figure out who the culprit was. Was it the spoiled granddaughter and her boyfriend? Or the secretary and his wife? Or the housekeeper? Or the old business partner? The police try and find out the only way they know – by cornering people in the house and barking rapid fire questions at them for the entire first half of the film. This sounds boring but it kind of got me all fired up too, so much so that I started firing rapid questions at my wife. Where's my dinner? Why don't you shut those kids up? Why are coming towards me with that knife?

    It's all pretty brisk stuff as the writer guy snoops around and generally acts like a total pain as he tries to rumble the perp. As this film was made in the 1800s it's not full of blood and gore and sex as we've all come to expect, what with being brought up on Fulci films, but for a glimpse into a by-gone age (30BC) I thought Green Eyes was charming and I'll tip my hat to it.

    Are there stand out films of this type? I'd like to know. The Pre-Cambrian explosion mystery film intrigues me.
    5coltras35

    Green eyes

    When a wealthy man is murdered at a costume party, each of the guests are considered a suspect. Naturally, one of the guests is a mystery writer (Charles Starrett), who helps the detective (John Wray) who doesn't want his help -all of the other guests have a motive, especially the dead man's granddaughter whose funds were held back by her dead grandfather ...

    Nice to see Charles Starrett in something other than the Durango Kid and he's quite energetic, adding some breeziness into rather routine murder mystery which can be a bit talky and a little tedious towards the end - however, it passes the time adequately.
    csteidler

    "Well, I'll be doggoned!"

    Charles Starrett is a writer of murder mysteries who gets involved in—yes, a murder mystery. Nothing too original in Green Eyes, but a fair assortment of suspects and intriguing clues help maintain interest. Once again, it's a murder in a big old house in which nearly all of the film's action occurs. The event which sets the story in motion is the murder of the house's owner, one Steven Kester, during a costume party, and it's quickly established that his guests, his employees and even his granddaughter are not particularly sad to see him go. Even his butler can't find anything nice to say about him:

    Inspector Crofton: "What kind of a man was Mr. Kester to work for?" Lenox the butler: "He was a Simon Legree, sir. It's been most difficult to put up with him these past 20 years."

    For the first half of the film, John Wray as the inspector barks out a good half of all the dialog spoken as he rounds up clues and lays out the facts and motives. In the second half, we see more of Starrett as he quietly investigates while more noisily presenting a rather foppish front to most of the group.

    Shirley Grey and Dorothy Revier, as the two women involved in the case, are given just enough screen time to hint that their characters could contain some interesting depths; but alas, a 70-minute movie holds limited space for developing character studies.

    Nice touches: the goofy getups sported by the guests in the opening costume party and ensuing interrogation; the "green eyes" of the title; and a clever closing bit with Starrett at his typewriter.
    4wes-connors

    Masquerading Murder

    "A stately country mansion is the sight of a costume party thrown by its wealthy owner. The masquerade party comes to an abrupt end when the host is found dead in a closet, his body full of stab wounds. Now the authorities and a crime novelist, who is a guest at the party, must sort through the guest list and uncover the identity of the murderer," according to the DVD sleeve's synopsis.

    This dull whodunit stars handsome Charles Starrett (as Michael Tracy), despite the billing. Later, he became known as the western hero "The Durango Kid", one of the biggest "Box Office Western Stars" of the forties. As in other films, filmmakers got the ex-football star to partially undress, something usually reserved for women. Herein, you can catch Mr. Starrett in his pajama bottoms.

    **** Green Eyes (6/15/34) Richard Thorpe ~ Charles Starrett, John Wray, Shirley Grey

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    • Trivia
      This film received its first telecast 2/25/40 on New York City's pioneer, and still experimental television station W2XBS. Post-WWII West Coast television audiences got their first look at it in San Francisco 6/3/52 on KRON (Channel 4) and in Los Angeles 9/25/52 on KECA (Channel 7).
    • Goofs
      Warning SPOILERS: no explanation is given about Roger Hall's apparent suicide. Once Steven Kester was stabbed to death by someone else, there would be no reason to shoot himself as he planned to do after shooting Kester himself. It is not mentioned if he was killed by the person who stabbed Kester, and if so, how did that person know Hall's plan in order to try and pin Kester's murder on him.
    • Quotes

      Roger Hall: After all, death isn't so terrible to the one it strikes. It's those of us who live on, safe and protected in body and spirit who suffer. Don't you think?

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    • Release date
      • June 15, 1934 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Zielone oczy
    • Filming locations
      • Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA(Studio)
    • Production company
      • Chesterfield Motion Pictures Corporation (I)
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 8m(68 min)
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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