The Garden Murder Case (1936)

The Garden Murder Case poster

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Starring:
 Edmund Lowe, H.B. Warner, Benita Hume
Directed by: Edwin L. Marin

Cat Out of the Bag Alert!  This review contains some spoilers for this film!

Synopsis: A series of mysterious suicides surrounding millionaire Lowe Hammle (Gene Lockhart) has detective Philo Vance (Edmund Lowe) working overtime to learn the truth.

Kitty Cameo: Hammle’s mother (Jessie Ralph) is a crotchety women who tells Nurse Beeton (Benita Hume) to find her cat. Later the Nurse is seen with the group of suspects holding the black cat in her arms.

The Garden Murder Case - Nurse Beeton Benita Hume with group of suspects and black cat under her arm

The cat also almost trips up the butler who is carrying a tray.

The Garden Murder Case - black cat almost tripping up butler with tray

At the end of the film Philo’s suspect Major Fenwicke-Ralston (H.B. Warner) is calling to the cat who is sitting on a ledge of the high-rise building.

The Garden Murder Case - black cat standing on high rise ledge

He calls to the cat, who sits down on the ledge.

The Garden Murder Case - black cat sitting on high rise ledge

Finally the cat comes to the man, supposedly via the power of hypnotism. He refers to the cat as Brutus.

The Garden Murder Case - black cat jumping down from ledge

The Garden Murder Case - black cat approaching man class=

Final Mewsings: Don’t assume because a cat comes that it’s been hypnotized.


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