Murder by Invitation (1941)
Synopsis of Murder by Invitation
Stars-on-the-downslide Wallace Ford and Marian Marsh briefly rallied in the above-average Monogram melodrama Murder by Invitation. Ford is cast as usual as a wisecracking reporter, this time christened Bob White. Our hero is one of several acquaintances and relatives invited to an old dark house to attend the reading of a will. At the stroke of midnight, one of the guests is murdered?and then another. The most obvious suspect is Aunt Cassie (Sarah Padden), the slightly daft owner of the mansion, but Bob suspects that she's being framed, and with the help of heroine Nora O'Brien (Marsh) he sets about to prove it. Some of the film's best moments are suppled by beetle-browed Herb Vigran, a busy supporting actor whose best professional days were still to come.Murder by Invitation closes with one of those "It's only a movie, folks" gags indigenous to the Monogram product of the 1940s. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 66 mins
Complete Cast of Murder by Invitation
- Wallace Ford - Bob White
- Sarah Padden - Aunt Cassie Denham
- Wallis Clark - Judge Moore
- Minerva Urecal - Maxine Denham
- Herb Vigran - Eddie, Photographer
- Kay Deslys
- Philip Trent
- Dave "Tex" O'Brien
- Marian Marsh - Nora O'Brien
- George Guhl - Sheriff Boggs
- Gavin Gordon - Garson Denham
- Arthur Young - Trowbridge
- Hazel Keener - Mary Denham
- Isabelle La Mal
- Lee Shumway
- John James
- Director(s):
- Phil Rosen
- Writer(s):
- George Bricker
- Producer(s):
- A.W. Hackel
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