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A Shot in the Dark (1935 film)
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Wikipedia article
'A Shot in the Dark' is a 1935 American mystery film directed by Charles Lamont.
Plot
A college student (Charles Starrett) discovers his roommate's body hanging from a window and calls the police. What at first looks like suicide turns out to be murder. While a police investigation is ongoing, more students are killed.
Cast
*Charles Starrett as Kenneth "Ken" Harris
*Robert Warwick as Joseph Harris
*Edward Van Sloan as Prof. Bostwick
*Marion Shilling as Jean Coates
*Helen Jerome Eddy as Miss Lottie Case
*Doris Lloyd as Lucille Coates
*James Bush as Byron Coates / John Meseraux
*Julian Madison as Charlie Penlon
*Eddie Tamblyn as Bill Smart
*Ralph Brooks as Sam Anderson
*Robert McKenzie as Sheriff
*John Davidson as Prof. Brand
*Herbert Bunston as College President
*George Morrell as Deputy Ab Barber
*Broderick O'Farrell as Dr. Howell
*Jane Keckley as Bostwick's Housekeeper
Critical reception
'The New York Times' wrote, "'A Shot in the Dark', which pictures a trilogy of murders on a rural college campus, telegraphs its punches in a way that may seem insignificant to Chesterfield Productions, Inc., but is as good as a confession to us amateur gumshoes...a decided absence of liveliness both in the writing and the playing"; whereas 'Fantastic Movie Musings and Ramblings' noted, "a very good mystery...It does have some problems, particularly in having a rather stiff and static presentation, but outside of that, this is one of the more pleasant discoveries I've made."
References
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