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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0089218463791
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Alpha Video
Manufacturer: Alpha Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Alpha Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 25, 2005
Running Time: 53 minutes
Sales Rank: 109038
Studio: Alpha Video
Theatrical Release Date: February 21, 1938
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Editorial Review:
Description:
A boxing match at the Hollywood Stadium turns into a gripping murder mystery with over 2,000 suspects! As top contender Ace Cummings prepares to take on Madison, the reigning champ, Madison, the house lights dim. Suddenly, a scream echoes through the venue and a peculiar odor fills the air. When the lights come up, Ace is found dead. After witnessing the bizarre event, sassy and beautiful young writer Polly Ward decides to investigate, teaming up with dapper district attorney Bill Devons. Their long list of suspects includes a candy-seller, a gambler, a movie star, two of the victim's girlfriends and the boxer Madison. Clues are scarce, but the sleuths work every angle. As Polly and Bill draw closer to discovering the killer, their lives are threatened and the danger becomes frighteningly real. Rife with snappy dialogue, brisk pacing, and sharp performances, The Hollywood Stadium Mystery (a.k.a. The Stadium Murders) is a tightly-executed whodunit and a fine example of what smaller studios were capable of during Hollywood's golden era. The opening credit sequence is particularly inventive with its clever use of newspaper headlines to kick off the action. Director David Howard handles the mystery genre with panache, despite a career that centered mostly on adventures and western films like Six-Gun Gold, Painted Desert and Daniel Boone. Neil Hamilton later gained fame as white-haired Commissioner Gordon in the 1966 TV-series "Batman." The ringside radio commentator in The Hollywood Stadium Mystery was Jimmy Wallington, a real-life announcer whose voice was heard on such programs as "The Life Of Riley" and "Stranger Than Fiction."
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
I usually don't expect too much from Alpha Video public domain releases, but this little 1938 jewel proved an exception. It's a surprisingly taut, creatively directed and funny mystery featuring a real charmer, Evelyn Venable, as the leading lady.
Right from the titles -- delivery trucks drop bundles of newspapers with the actors and other necessaries presented in the headlines (sounds hackneyed, but the way it's handled here it's not) -- and the first few moments of the movie, when ... Read More
Rating:  -
Hollywood Stadium is playing host to a big time championship prize fight, and the crowd's in a frenzy. Moments before the match is underway, the house lights are dimmed. When the lights go back on, arrogant boxer Ace Cummings continues to sit on his stool, but murdered in the ring. Now, whodunit? Is it the actor whose eye Ace had blackened? Or the two girlfriends he had dropped? What about that night's ring opponent? Or the shifty gambler? Geez, is it the popular comic Smiley Burnette? With 2000 people ... Read More
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