one of my absolute favorites!

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Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

First, thank you Polaris for the only reasonable review. Secondly, THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS, so stop reading right now if you haven't seen the movie. Third, I hated this clunker for multiple reasons, including the absurd plot, the bad acting, the often difficult to understand dialog. Fourth, Louise Beavers was wonderful, but you can't expect to enjoy a bad movie because Ms. Beavers was wonderful in about two minutes of it. Finally, the main complaint, the thing that really drove me nuts, is the lighting, or, I should say, the absence of lighting! Maybe it was the copy I rented on DVD, but half the movie was so dark I could barely tell who was who and what was what. And, completely inexcusable, the Big Climax at the end was totally black. Everything that happened in this big final scene was absolutely invisible. One of the other reviewers -- ***SPOILER*** -- said we see the unconscious body stuffed into the building's incinerator furnace. That reviewer must have uncovered a totally different print from the one I got stuck with, I saw nothing but the occasional faint glimmer of the the furnace. Nothing. At any rate, for all these reasons, and despite the great Ms. Beavers, I have to say this is one of the worst I've ever tried to watch. Sorry.

When millionaire philanthropist falls from the top of a luxury apartment it is a mystery; did he fall, did he jump or was the pushed? The first person questioned is the dead man's secretary she claims to have no idea what happened and suggests the police talk to the maid; however she does warn them that the is a little dumb. The maid claims she may have heard a hissing noise but isn't certain. As the police discuss matters a reporter, Ted Rand, bluffs his way into the apartment… he isn't the first reporter there though; the secretary. Pat Morgan, is actually a reporter too. She had been investigating her employer and knew a lot more than she told the police. Unfortunately for her as the calls in the story she doesn't realise she is telling the story to her rival on the other phone rather than her paper. She gets the sack and is determined to get her revenge on Rand, who she was once involved with.As the story progresses more people die and motives start to emerge. It seems the dead man was involved with the woman in the apartment below and when she is found dead suspicion falls on the husband… although there are other dodgy characters about; including the mob. As Morgan digs deeper into the story she puts herself in real danger.At just over an hour in length this film doesn't outstay its welcome. There is a nice mystery with a reasonable number of suspects. While it is listed as a comedy it is better to think of it as a drama with a few comical moments as there are few real laughs to be had…if you don't include some of the overacting by secondary characters! Leads Ginger Rogers and Lyle Talbot are likable as Morgan and Rand. Given the fairly light tone to much of the film its ending gets quite dark; it looked as though Morgan was going to be incinerated by the villain… even though it was unlikely to actually happen this proved quite tense. Overall a pretty good film; it may be a bit crackly but the story is quite fresh.

well I must say that this is the first movie I've ever seen with Ginger Rodgers in it,, yeah I know it's the first time I've ever seen her but lemme say wow,, yeah that's right,, the story is about a little murder mystery,, people are getting killed in an apartment complex and her and a rival reporter have to figure out who done it,, problem is both of them are trying to out-scoop the other one , and that leads them into conflict with the police as well as each other , I did appreciate the killer's way of disposing of the bodies,, I won't give it away, but let's just say you will have to watch to find out.. you don't know right away who the killer is and it really is revealed till close to the end of the movie. all in all not a bad little movie,, a little slow moving but good.

The opening seconds of this Z-Grade melodrama promise more than the rest of the film delivers. A body flies out of a window. Suicide or murder? That's what two friendly reporters on rival newspapers want to know. They are Ginger Rogers and Lyle Talbot whose initial sparring (that predictably leads to romance) is one of the only amusing things in this creaky crime drama that needed to be oiled, even back in 1933. Frequent lulls of no dialogue or action slow this down to a turtle race. Sudden uses of shadows to show a murderer in a gas mask or darkly lit scenes of mayhem can't help this rise past mediocrity. Rogers, fresh from another Z-Grade melodrama ("The Thirteenth Guest") must have either been bored or broke, or waiting for dance rehearsals to start so she could learn "The Carioca" for "Flying Down to Rio".Louise Beavers adds a bit of amusement as the feisty maid who declares, "Yes, I ain't going' in!" (to a morgue), insisting that she's seen enough dead bodies in one day to last her a lifetime, and agreeing to go to jail, preferring to be with live people than dead ones in a freezer. This seems like one of those slow-moving melodramatic plays that toured around the United States and England's smaller communities prior to the invention of movies.