Elderly multimillionaire Jasper White (character actor Charlie Grapewin (The Wizard of Oz, The Grapes of Wrath, The Petrified Forest, and seven Ellery Queen mysteries as Inspector Richard Queen) has called his greedy relatives and associates to his mansion on (what else?) a dark and stormy night to announce that he is giving them each one million dollars in his will. But wait. What's this? A long-lost granddaughter show up -- Doris Waverley (Evalyn Knapp, His Private Secretary, The Perils of Pauline, The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance) -- and white then decides to leave his entire fortune to her. But wait. What's this? A second Doris Waverley appears (Mary Carlisle, one of the fifteen WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1932, Grand Hotel, The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi, Dance, Girl, Dance -- she died at the age of 104, the last surviving WAMPAS Baby). Which one is the real Doiris?
A wealthy old man, a will about to be changed, greedy relatives, an imposter, and a lonely mansion on (what else?) a dark and stormy night. What could go wrong? Except murder, that is. Add to this romance and a madcap mystery, and you have the ingredients for an entertaining flick.
Also featuring Lucien Littlefield (The Cat and the Canary, The Bitter Tea of General Yen, Ruggles of Red Gap), Regis Toomey (Meet John Doe, Guys and Dolls, The Night of the Grizzly, and featured roles in television's Burke's Law and Petticoat Junction), Arthur Hohl (Island of Lost Souls, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Hunchback of Notre Dame), Fred Kelsey (who directed 37 films from 1914 and 1920 and acted in more than 400 films from 1911 to 1958, including three "Lone Wolf" movies and uncredited roles in Yankee Doodle Dandy, The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell, and Auntie Mame), Wallace Ford (The Mysterious Mr. Wong, The Mummy's Hand, Shadow of a Doubt), and actress and budding gossip columnist Hedda Hopper (Seven Keys to Baldpate, Harold Teen, Dracula's Daughter; she became one of them most powerful and feared gossip columnists of her age).
Directed by Christy Carbanne (A Girl of the Limberlost, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, Scattergood Baines). The film was written by Wellyn Tolman (14 of the 15 episodes of the Tom Mix serial The Miracle Rider, The Man from Arizona, Ghost City), from a story by mystery novelist (the Hildegard Withers mysteries) and screenwriter Stuart Palmer (Bulldog Drummond's Peril, Seventeen, Passport to Suez)
This one is worth sixty-five minutes of your time. enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y47A9bk4T-I
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