From Headquarters

Plot Summary

Playboy and ne'er-do-well Gordon Bates is dead, that's for sure. But whodunit? That's not so sure. There are suspects aplenty. SoFrom Headquarters comes the army of crime specialists – toxicologists, fingerprint experts, ballistic experts, technicians runningdata-card tabulations on Hollerith machines and, for good measure, authorities on the use of invisible ink – that know the howdunitcan point to the who. George Brent and Eugene Pallette portray the lead crime dogs in this swift sniff-out of a killer that siftsthrough murderous means and motives at an engagingly pell-mell pace. William Dieterle (A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Hunchback ofNotre Dame), on his way to A-list prominence, directs with great visual hubbub and flourish.