Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

marshrydrob A wealthy philanthropist is found dead. The man pushed or fallen from the roof of an apartment building.Two reporters compete for the story. One detective works the case. Is it suicide or murder?More at being a murder mystery suspense thriller; than at being an actual horror.There is a good gathering of talent. Ginger Rogers, carries the story. The cast working well with her acting style.The story, is a good tale; and it could be used as a possible model for modern detective stories with titles that are of a similar nature.A Shriek in the Night, is not what I see as being a classic horror; but it is a good classic film; and will be enjoyed by fans of classic detective movies.

Cristi_Ciopron This was livelier and funnier than the usual mystery movies of that age, with the quiet and shy copper saving Pat; most of the supporting roles are good, with Hoyt, Pratt, Clark and, unlike some bovine leads sometimes seen in those days' movies, Talbot was handsome. The whodunit ends before the denouement (which was common in the '30s, the aim being the melodramatic and sensational look of a situation, not the whodunit: in 'The Ghost Walks' we are similarly shown the psychopath at work, 'Curtain …' gives away the solution right from the start: they exploited a melodramatically mysterious situation, didn't try to set up a whodunit, the unveiling of the villain's identity is anticipated also in 'The Vampire Bat', and in the comedy 'The Devil Bat' we know from the beginning who kills the victims), as we are shown who maneuvers in the basement, but are yet more intrigued about the motive; at the beginnings of the sound movies, they handled the presumed improvement in a way that may seem awkward: the players talking fast, the progress of the investigation being delivered in word, in the exchanges of the players, which expresses an eagerness to overuse the new asset, to rely on verbal delivery, and here we have a good instance of that and other uses of sound, the new asset's possibilities: the shriek itself, the noise heard by the housekeeper, the janitor's creepy laughter as he has dumped the reporter into the incinerator. Another show to be enjoyed, rather than an analyzable work.The script avenges the humbler characters, those of Hoyt and Lillian Harmer. The fast-talkers aren't glamorized either, the only glamorous item being the penthouse.The plot has to do with mobsters, and a revenge. But who takes revenge? Why the _ophidian sentences sent to the victims, the elaborate staging of the murders, the sound heard by the housekeeper? There was someone who solved the case, who found out whodunit, the modest copper played by Hoyt.

kidboots Ginger Rogers made lots of movies when she was just starting out. But for every "42nd Street" (1933) or "The Gay Divorcée" (1934) there was a "Broadway Bad" (1933) or a "Hat Check Girl" (1932). From the start she was determined to be noticed and by very hard work and a cute personality - she was!!!Ginger and Lyle Talbot make a cute team as rival reporters trying to get the scoop on a would-be suicide. They actually dated in real life, so I read.A scream (or yell) is heard, a body falls to the pavement and so this comedy mystery begins. Ginger plays Pat Morgan, Mr. Harker's (the dead man) live-in secretary. She is really a reporter put in as a plant to find out if Harker was really a phlanthrophist or an under- world figure. Lillian Harmer provides some laboured comedy relief as Mr. Harker's maid.More bodies turn up - Mrs. Colby, in the apartment that Mr. Harker met his death -and Mr. Colby is also found dead. The janitor (Harvey Clark) is acting suspicious - continually cutting the power supply to the different apartments so he can snoop around. Maurice Black, who often played ethnic types, is the gangster Martini. Arthur Hoyt plays Wilfred, the chief detective's right hand man, who is the butt of much of the humour. Louise Beavers has a small part as the Colby's maid.It is all explained in the end but not before Ginger almost ends up in a fiery grave.

Vampenguin With someone like Ginger Rogers involved, you'd be expecting a pretty good show, right? Well, I guess this one wasn't horrible, but I was certainly expecting more. It has your basic mystery plot: A man falls to his death under mysterious circumstances. Was it murder? Rogers plays the typical female reporter that is mandatory for this kind of show, and she's no better than anyone else who has played the same role. The detectives were a bit disappointing, usually detectives in this kind of film are pretty interesting characters, but here they mostly fall flat. One of them has a couple good lines near the first, but thats about it. Lyle Talbot's character makes up for it a bit though, I thought he was pretty cool and provided a few good chuckles. Overall, you can find a lot better films in this vein.5/10