Rynox

1931

47m

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Things are not all well at Rynox House, where the company is on the verge of collapse. At the same time, its senior partner, FX Benedik, keeps receiving threats from the disgruntled Boswell Marsh, who is seen in town buying theatre tickets and revolvers. As the Rynox staff, including the young Tony Benedik, work to keep the business afloat, FX invites Marsh to settle his grievances at his house one fateful night....

Directors

Michael Powell

Writers

Joseph Jefferson Farjeon(screenplay by)

Philip MacDonald(screenplay by)

Michael Powell(screenplay by)

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Stewart Rome

John Longden

Dorothy Boyd

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Stewart Rome

Francis Xavier Benedik …

John Longden

Anthony Xavier 'Tony' Benedik

Dorothy Boyd

Petronella 'Peter' Rickforth

Charles Paton

Samuel Faraday Rickforth

Leslie Mitchell

Basil Woolrich

Sybil Grove

Elsa Victoria Fairburn, Benedik's housekeeper

Cecil Clayton

Mr Musgrove, theatre ticket agent

Fletcher Lightfoot

William Prout, Benedik's butler

Edmund Willard

Captain Inigo 'Glassy' James

Eileen Lamb

Christabel Pagan, Benedik's private secretary

Fred Schwarz

MacDonald, creditor

Directors

Michael Powell

Writers

Joseph Jefferson Farjeon(screenplay by)

Philip MacDonald(screenplay by)

Michael Powell(screenplay by)

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6/10

With his eponymous company facing bankruptcy, owner "F.X. Benedik" is found slain and it falls to his son "Tony" (John Longden) to try to track down the curmudgeonly "Marsh" (Stewart Rome) who has an axe to grind with the business and might be implicated. This is probably only notable as being Michael Powell's directorial debut - and for a talkie only just out of nappies, there is quite a lot of movement and outdoor photography to help distinguish it from many of it's more drab, stage-bound, contemporaries. Otherwise, though, it's an unremarkable little whodunit with little jeopardy and way too much script. Rome does a decent enough job as the irritating "Marsh" and Dorothy Boyd ("Peter") brings a touch of glamour, though little of substance, as the mystery gradually unfolds - but don't expect much of a challenge for your own little grey cells, that's all a bit of a no-brainer.

Geronimo196702 Dec, 2023