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Murder by Invitation
Murder by Invitation

5.6

Murder by Invitation

NR·1941·67m

Summary

The relatives of a rich old woman unsuccessfully try to have her declared insane, so they can divide up her money. To show them that there are no hard feelings, she invites them to her estate for the weekend so she can decide to whom she actually will leave her money when she dies. Soon, however, family members begin turning up dead.

Crew

Director

Phil Rosen

Screenplay

George Bricker

Reviews

Geronimo1967

Geronimo1967

June 25, 2022

6

This is quite an enjoyable little game of cinematic Cluedo as a bunch of avaricious relatives take their their rich old aunt "Cassie" (Sarah Padden) to court to try and get her certified so they can access her $3 million dollar fortune. They get stuffed in court but to show no harm has been done, the old lady invites them all to her country pile for the weekend. Not long afterwards they start dropping like flies and George Guhl ("Sheriff Boggs") and local hack "Bob White" (Wallace Ford) are on the case whilst there are still folks alive! The dialogue is quite fun and Padden, Ford and his secretary "Nora" (Marian Marsh) keep this rather daft pot-boiler swinging along nicely for just over an hour with lots of secret passages, red herrings and quite a satisfactory ending.

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Status:

Released

Original Language:

English

Budget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Keywords

slang
trial
inheritance
b movie
reporter
estate
damsel in distress
eccentric millionaire
scheming relatives