The Walls Came Tumbling Down

1946

1h 22m

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5.9/10

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Crime

Mystery

A PI investigates a priest's murder.

Directors

Lothar Mendes

Writers

Wilfred H. Petitt(screenplay by)

Jo Eisinger(novel by)

Stars

Lee Bowman

Marguerite Chapman

Edgar Buchanan

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Top cast

Lee Bowman

Gilbert Archer

Marguerite Chapman

Patricia Foster, AKA Laura Browning

George Bradford

Matthew Stoker

Susan

Captain Griffin

Catherine Walsh

Ernst Helms

Dr. Marko

Bishop Martin

Bradford's Secretary

Mrs. Stoker

Diner at Bianca's

Detective Regan (as Bob Ryan)

Rausch

Carlo - Artist

Plainclothesman

Night Clerk

Directors

Lothar Mendes

Writers

Wilfred H. Petitt(screenplay by)

Jo Eisinger(novel by)

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This is really all about the last ten minutes as we quite entertainingly finish off this otherwise unremarkable drama. "Gilbert" (Lee Bowman) is a red-top journalist who loves nothing more than a good old dose of salacious rumour-mongering. His life takes a more serious turn when his friend is murdered. The man was a priest, and the mystery deepens when we discover that his two bibles are being sought by the menacing "Stoker" (George Macready). Why? Well one of them contains a code that will lead to the secret hiding place of a priceless Da Vinci painting. The police suspect that maybe "Pat" aka "Laura" (Marguerite Chapman) is somehow involved, so she and our gossip-pedlar join forces hoping to find it (and some romance) first, or at least to stay alive! It's a bit better than your standard afternoon feature this and that's almost entirely down to the sparingly featured Macready and to Edgar Buchanan's contributions as "Bradford" - and I did quite like the carefully choreographed cellar-denouement. Nope, you'll never remember it, and it could probably lose twenty minutes of waffly preamble, but it's not bad.

Geronimo196701 Jun, 2024