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DANGER is Their Business!
In New York City, a newly hired photographer becomes embroiled in a scandal when her photo is mistaken for evidence of a murder and she must try to prove her own innocence.
Double Exposure
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18 Dec 1944
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Chester Morris' final film for Pine-Thomas, Double Exposure takes advantage of his vaguely roguish charm for another romantic comedy. It starts at breakneck pace, introducing us to Larry Burke (Morris), the editor of a photography magazine that's owned by a health nut who hands out carrots in the office (except on Thursdays — Thursdays are turnips) and stops by regularly to put employees through their deep knee bend paces. It's completely ridiculous but also immediately makes the cheap little programmer memorable, so credit to Pine-Thomas for figuring out that vegetable juice could draw eyes.
The story turns into a love triangle, with Burke hiring Pat Marvin (Nancy Kelly of The Bad Seed) from Iowa to join the magazine, only to…
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This snappy Pine-Thomas mystery comedy stars Chester Morris as a scandal sheet editor who is compelled by his health-obsessed boss to hire promising photographer Nancy Kelly. Morris doesn't know she's a she and quickly falls in love, despite her initial attempts to deflect him. Their budding romance is threatened when a murder occurs that implicates Kelly. The two stars have good chemistry and while this doesn't rank up with the screwball classics of the era, DOUBLE EXPOSURE has a few chuckles and is intermittently clever, right on down to the knowingly ridiculous ending.
Like pretty much everything produced by Pine-Thomas, DOUBLE EXPOSURE is in the public domain. The version posted on Internet Archive is passable quality.
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By my count there have been at least eight movies released under the title "Double Exposure," and this one wasn't even the first. It knows enough not to overstay its welcome, fitting into its 65 minutes a screwball comedy, romance, murder mystery and some well intended commentary on sex roles. Though without spoiling the ending, I'll say this; just because something you do doesn't end up harming somebody doesn't make you not a shithead.
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Magazine editor Larry Burke (Chester Morris) needs a new photographer so he hires Pat Marvin (Nancy Kelly) and quickly the two start doing wonderful work together. All of that changes when Pat takes a fake photograph and then is accused of murder.
DOUBLE EXPOSURE is a rather low-budget film from Poverty Row that really doesn't have too much going for it. The film features Morris in the lead and he's one of my favorite actors but even he can't save this film that mixes a mystery with light comedy and romance. The biggest problem with the film is the fact that it just doesn't know what it wants to do.
The screenplay is a real mess because the majority of…
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I sat down to watch a 2010 indie science fiction film called Attack of the Octopus People, but the print-on-demand company that made the disc actually put this film on it instead. Might as well watch it.
This is both a screwball comedy and a crime drama. That feels like a lot to pack into this movie's short runtime. That's really the only problem with the film. What the movie actually does it does well and amusingly. It just gives you whiplash as it quickly jumps into a new genre close to the end.
The lead actress Nancy Kelly and the old rich guy who marries a new woman at the drop of a hat are standouts.
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A very throw-away Chester Morris rom-com. Stick to Boston Blackie from now on jaws.... which is what he mostly did.
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