Miss Pinkerton
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Written by Niven Bush and Lillie Hayward from a novel by Mary Roberts Reinhart
1932/US
First National Pictures (Warner Bros.)
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First viewing/Forbidden Hollywood Vol. 5
Nurse Adams, aka Miss Pinkerton: Oh, I’m tired and I’m bored! I think I’ll donate my pink and white body to science and commit suicide.
Move over Una O’Conner. Move over Fay Wray. Joan Blondell has you beat in the screaming department.
This is a 66-minute old dark house murder mystery. Nurse Adams (Joan Blondell) is complaining about boredom. Her boss assigns her to assist the police to solve a mystery that took place is said old house. Adams’s cover is to tend to an elderly bedridden relation of the victim. She certainly gets the excitement she was seeking! And then Police Inspector Patten (George Brent) is easy on the eyes.
You can’t guess the mystery because key suspects are introduced in the last ten minutes of the mystery. Plus the length does not allow character development. It’s actually more of a scary movie than a mystery and there are some effective jump cuts. Blondell is always fun to watch and she does not disappoint here.
