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Title: Moderate and unexciting
Review: This is a murder mystery not -as its title might lead some to suspect-- a horror movie.It centres on a series of murders taking place around the Broadway theatre world in New York .Cecil Moore is an actor-manager now based in NYC .His brother and former business manager ,Jonathan, is murdered ,and soon another man ,a former electrician with Moore's company is also slain .The investigation is carried out by the drama critic of a local paper ,whose investigations are compicated when he falls in love with Moore's daughter,an aspiring actress.He connives with the police to bait a trap -one aimed at catching the killer during an audition for Julius CaesarIts poorly acted ,with unpersuasive motivation and a plot that makes little or no sense.Add technical inadequacies -muddy monochrome photography and sound that suggests the technicians were recording in a broom cupboard and you get a movie only likely to appeal to those who are obsessive about 40's B-movies
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