Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Murder by Television (1935)

 Corporate competition for a new process for broadcasting television world wide without relays results in murder. A showcase of sorts for the novelty of television, we see cameras, and tubes, and what television images looked like. The film is ironicly rather static, a drawing room mystery melodrama, and I'm still not clear who all was involved in the murder. 

Muder was accomplished via televison broadcasted "death ray". Bella Lugosi plays twins, spoiler. Ethnic house servants provide most of the comic relief, mildly racist. *

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