When one of the supporting characters makes a complaint that they need more light, I had to shout at the screen, "Me too!" This is at a key scene in the film and it would be nice if the viewer could see what exactly is happening. Certainly, that seeing is supposed to be dark because the characters investigating the murder of a collector of rare antique soldiers are in a dangerous predicament which as Bulldog Drummond (Tom Conway) tells us here could have them locked in a vault for nine hundred years. Drummond has been through a lot in his nearly 20 years on screen, from the two A grade films starring Ronald Colman to a series of being movies in the late thirties and a return in the mid-1940's. Basically the British version of the popular Philo Vance, it takes on another comparison by hiring "The Falcon" (Conway) to play the part.
An intriguing opening shows the victim playing with two of the soldiers, remanence of a century old battle. It turns out that there are eleven more, and it comes up to Conway how to find who has been making threats against others interested in the soldiers as well as discovering why they want these teeny lead statues. Two beautiful women, Maria Palmer and Helen Westcott, also become involved in the mystery, with Conway suspicious of their involvement. not as intriguing as it sounds, I was hoping for a "Maltese Falcon" like mystery, from what I ended up with was a B programmer that tries too hard to be complex and ends up being a bit of a mess.
An intriguing opening shows the victim playing with two of the soldiers, remanence of a century old battle. It turns out that there are eleven more, and it comes up to Conway how to find who has been making threats against others interested in the soldiers as well as discovering why they want these teeny lead statues. Two beautiful women, Maria Palmer and Helen Westcott, also become involved in the mystery, with Conway suspicious of their involvement. not as intriguing as it sounds, I was hoping for a "Maltese Falcon" like mystery, from what I ended up with was a B programmer that tries too hard to be complex and ends up being a bit of a mess.