“Night Club Scandal” is a crime drama about a medical doctor who murders his wife and frames her boyfriend for the crime. This mediocre melodrama suffers from over-direction by Ralph Murphy (“Men Without Names” 1935) and a poorly written script by Lillie Hayward. It is a “B” film from Paramount Pictures that at least served as escapist entertainment for Depression Era audiences. These type of movies were often the first of a double feature, with the superior film viewed second.
The screenplay provided fair to middling dialogue for the cast: John Barrymore (Drew Barrymore’s grandfather), Lynn Overman, Louise Campbell, Charles Bickford, Harvey Stephens, J. Carroll Nash, Evelyn Brent, Elizabeth Patterson, Virginia Vale, and John Hamilton as the governor. Hamilton later gained fame as Perry White of television’s “Adventures of Superman” (1952-1958).
Night Club Scandal (1937)
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My Review
“Night Club Scandal” is a crime drama about a medical doctor who murders his wife and frames her boyfriend for the crime. This mediocre melodrama suffers from over-direction by Ralph Murphy (“Men Without Names” 1935) and a poorly written script by Lillie Hayward. It is a “B” film from Paramount Pictures that at least served as escapist entertainment for Depression Era audiences. These type of movies were often the first of a double feature, with the superior film viewed second.
The screenplay provided fair to middling dialogue for the cast: John Barrymore (Drew Barrymore’s grandfather), Lynn Overman, Louise Campbell, Charles Bickford, Harvey Stephens, J. Carroll Nash, Evelyn Brent, Elizabeth Patterson, Virginia Vale, and John Hamilton as the governor. Hamilton later gained fame as Perry White of television’s “Adventures of Superman” (1952-1958).