To me, this movie is perfection.

Best movie ever!

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

That is the cemetery plot of movies that were D.O.A.One-shot director William Beaudine could sometimes take a sows ear of a script and turn it into a silk purse, with clever dialog, amusing characters and inspired casting. But for this sequel to "Detective Kitty O'Day", he simply took the same story, moved it to the location of Jean Parker and Peter Cookson's newest employer, and had the script changed a bit to make it appear fresh. Now the pair is working for a major hotel when the boss gets the axe, shot rather than drowned like her boss in the first film. To see this on a double bill with the previous entry in this (fortunately) two entry series is to waste an additional hour of viewing and a reminded that just because the poverty row studios turned out a few classics doesn't exclude them from having had some duds as well. The cheap sets and blurry photography only document the quick production schedule shooting of many Monogram films with no thought to the viewers recalling, "Wait a minute. Didn't I see this one once before with the exact same characters?".At least the laundry shoot scene where Parker, Cookson and the new detective working with veteran character actor Tim Ryan (husband of "Beverly Hillbillies" granny Irene Ryan and one of the writers of this opus) is a lot funnier than the window ledge sequence of the first. The absence of the original detective is explained by him being in a mental institution. He probably just read the script, panicked and said, "Oh no, not this again!".

Jean Parker and Peter Cookson return to make another Monogram feature as secretary Kitty O'Day and her boyfriend Johnny an older and sillier edition of Nancy Drew and her boyfriend Ted. But as teens Bonita Granville and Frankie Thomas were a whole lot more entertaining and believable than these two. I'm trying to figure out how Parker ever held down a job as scatterbrained as she is.She's losing this one because it's her boss who winds up dead. Parker works as a secretary for a hotel owner who gets himself killed. Problem is that every time she and Cookson decide to report the crime, the body disappears. She's driving homicide cop Tim Ryan to total distraction.Not that Ryan's not busy because a few other murders happen along the way all connected to this one.Sam Katzman over at Monogram was obviously looking for another movie series like Cisco Kid and the Bowery Boys. But two films and Kitty O'Day went to the dustbin of cinema history.

While this is a decidedly minor comedy whodunit, it makes for a mildly diverting entertainment. I found it refreshing to see Jean Parker playing comedy for a change instead of being sweet-Sweet-SWEET in yet another weeper. Peter Cookson, as boyfriend Johnny, seemed to be doing a fair imitation of Cary Grant; I had to look and see where he was from with that curious accent (Oregon) just to be sure that the resemblance wasn't simply a coincidence. Someone, either the director or Cookson himself, clearly had Grant's flair for the screwballs in mind while shooting Johnny. And it's actually quite fun! It's a silly little B-movie, but as long as you don't require your mysteries to make much sense it's perfectly watchable. And if you're a Parker fan her presence makes it quite enjoyable.

Nonsensical movie with Jean Parker very funny as a daffy dame intent on solving murders, in this case the one of her employer at a hotel.Nothing in this movie is especially surprising. The cops are gruff and annoyed, the suspects are blandly generic and the boyfriend, who is continually forced to help out in the investigation, is genially frustrated. Bodies appear and disappear, everyone acts suspicious, hotel employees have jealousy issues, Parker keeps doing dumb things that somehow pan out and there's a lot of running around the hotel. In other words, this is a better than usual example of the comedy mystery movie, mainly due to some solid performances.I have no idea whether the mystery makes sense. I watched this on streaming netflix but then got distracted and forgot I was watching it. I wound up seeing the first and second half of the movie several months apart, and the review is more aimed at the second half since I don't even remember the first half in any detail. So let's say it's fun but very unmemorable.