A wealthy woman has a murder mystery on her hands when her greedy relatives wind up dead after being invited to her home.A wealthy woman has a murder mystery on her hands when her greedy relatives wind up dead after being invited to her home.A wealthy woman has a murder mystery on her hands when her greedy relatives wind up dead after being invited to her home.
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Herb Vigran
- Eddie
- (as Herbert Vigran)
Phillip Trent
- Larry Denham
- (as Philip Trent)
Isabel La Mal
- Martha Denham
- (as Isabelle LaMal)
Arthur Berkeley
- Courtroom Specator
- (uncredited)
James Carlisle
- Alienist
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaCassandra's fortune of three million dollars would be about $62 million dollars in 2023.
- GoofsWhen Bob White reads the note that was left after the small statue is taken, he holds it in one hand because he has shaving cream in the other. But the close up of the note shows it being held by two hands.
- Quotes
[last lines]
Eddie, the Photographer: The Hays Office ain't gonna like that long kiss!
- Crazy creditsEach change of the opening credits appear to be dissolved away by flames.
- ConnectionsReferences The Cat and the Canary (1939)
Featured review
Perennial second-from-the-left-cop-in-the-station-house, George Guhl, has a featured role, would you believe, in Monogram's 1941 tale, Murder by Invitation, which turns out to be a sort of Mrs Longfellow Deeds Meets the Cat and the Canary. With halfway competent direction and a halfway appropriate budget, this may well have turned out as sleeper of the year. The money is there all right, but Phil Rosen's direction is strictly from hunger. The picture's potential is unrealized. Obviously left largely to their own devices, the players do what they can to salvage the film. Although inclined to over-act, I thought Sarah Padden carried off the main role with a fair amount of conviction, although other reviewers disagree. George Guhl was a big letdown, and I was also disappointed that Marian Marsh was simply just another pretty blonde in this outing and no longer the charismatic charmer of Beauty and the Boss.
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- Also known as
- Murder at Midnight
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- Runtime1 hour 7 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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