Amateur detectives have been around in movies a long time before Nick and Nora (and Asta!) solved their first "Thin Man" murder mystery. Ten years after that, they were still going strong (having "Gone Home" the same year), and Powell had moved onto other mysteries with spouses (current and ex) Ginger Rogers and Jean Arthur, and other couples got along the murder mystery solving band wagon as well. So by the time that Allyn Joslyn and Evelyn Keyes jumped on that bandwagon for the entertaining but standard "Dangerous Blondes" in 1943, the idea was old hat. They are back again, although their character names are different, but it is basically more of the same, murder in high society and all sorts of suspects, both of high and low society, involved.
The revelation of the murder is actually pretty clever with the dead man sitting still at a huge dinner party at a lavish nightclub as if he had just had too much to drink and couldn't think of a word to say in his drunken stupor. But he's stiff in a different way, with smoke coming out of his mouth thanks to a lit cigarette which has done everything but light his lips on fire. The supporting cast is fine, including Marguerite Chapman as a delightfully nasty socialite and Shemp Howard as a temperamental truck driver whose truck nearly decapitates Joslyn in the opening scene. The script is just average though, giving no real surprises, and making this simply just an acceptable programmer that is practically identical to all the other murder mystery comedies released in the 1930's and 40's.
The revelation of the murder is actually pretty clever with the dead man sitting still at a huge dinner party at a lavish nightclub as if he had just had too much to drink and couldn't think of a word to say in his drunken stupor. But he's stiff in a different way, with smoke coming out of his mouth thanks to a lit cigarette which has done everything but light his lips on fire. The supporting cast is fine, including Marguerite Chapman as a delightfully nasty socialite and Shemp Howard as a temperamental truck driver whose truck nearly decapitates Joslyn in the opening scene. The script is just average though, giving no real surprises, and making this simply just an acceptable programmer that is practically identical to all the other murder mystery comedies released in the 1930's and 40's.