Il terzo delitto

Titolo originale: The Mad Miss Manton
Regia: Leigh Jason |
Anno: 1938
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Commedia Crime Mistero Romance
Tag: gangster | madcap comedy | screwball comedy | socialite | prankster | investigative journalism | murder mystery | libel suit |
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck | Henry Fonda | Sam Levene | Frances Mercer | Stanley Ridges | Whitney Bourne | Vickie Lester | Ann Evers | Catherine O'Quinn | Linda Perry | Eleanor Hansen | Hattie McDaniel | James Burke | Paul Guilfoyle | Penny Singleton | Leona Maricle | Kay Sutton | Miles Mander | John Qualen | Grady Sutton | Olin Howland | Frank Anthony | Irving Bacon | Harry A. Bailey | Ed Brady | Lynton Brent | John Butler | Harry Campbell | James Carlisle | Eddy Chandler | George Chandler | William Corson | Tom Costello | Wade Crosby | Virginia Dabney | George DeNormand | Mary Jo Desmond | Paul Everton | Harry Fleischmann | Bess Flowers | Byron Foulger | Otto Fries | Charles Halton | Vinton Hayworth | Donald Kerr | Mike Lally | Buck Mack | George Magrill | Matt McHugh | Charles McMurphy | Robert Middlemass | Lillian Miles | Robert Mitchell | Leonard Mudie | Ted Oliver | Emory Parnell | Harvey Parry | Gerald Pierce | Fred Rapport | Jack Rice | Walter Sande | Buster Slaven | Cy Slocum | Michael Stark | Bert Stevens | Jean Stevens | Brick Sullivan | Charles Sullivan | William Tannen | Carlie Taylor | Edward Thomas | Charles Trowbridge | Russell Wade | Pauline Wagner | Pierre Watkin | Barrett Whitelaw | Douglas Williams | Clarence Wilson | Jane Woodworth | Oliver Cross | Tom Ferrandini |

Un'ereditiera scopre per caso un cadavere, ma, dato che il corpo è sparito, nessuno le crede. La ragazza non demorde e, con l'aiuto di un giornalista, dapprima scettico poi innamorato, individua il colpevole.

Frasi

Peter Ames: All right, Hilda, can you carry a gun? [...] D
Melsa Manton: [storms into the room and slaps the [...] D
Lieutenant Brent: Everybody suspects you of holdin [...] D
Melsa Manton: Police! All they know is to blow a w [...] D
Melsa Manton: Helen, you search the upstairs. Hel [...] D
Peter Ames: [Melsa has been knocked unconscious an [...] D
Peter Ames: [Referring to Melsa] Isn't she wonderf [...] D
Melsa Manton: Well, if I want to marry a fortune h [...] D
Edward Norris: Don't speak to anyone. I don't want [...] D
Melsa Manton: [to her friends] Get him, girls! Pe [...] D
Melsa Manton: Hilda, the door! Hilda: [already on [...] D
Melsa Manton: May I have a cigarette? [He places [...] D
Helen Frayne: If you kill her, you have to kill al [...] D
[last lines] Peter Ames: We'll go to South Americ [...] D
Hilda: [throwing an entire pitcher of water in Pet [...] D
Lieutenant Brent: Miss Manton, I don't know what y [...] D
Peter Ames: Listen, before I knew you, I disliked [...] D
Lieutenant Brent: Round up that bag of dames that [...] D
Dora Fenton: You know, psychiatrists say hate's ju [...] D
Melsa Manton: [has just discovered Fonda is faking [...] D
Lieutenant Brent: Look, lady, it's been ten minute [...] D
Peter Ames: [to Melsa] You're up to your beautiful [...] D
Hilda: [to the telephoe operator] Give me the Morr [...] D
Helen Frayne: Look! I found a bloodstain! Dora Fe [...] D
Melsa Manton: Thank you, Helen. You're sweet and v [...] D
Lieutenant Brent: [Talking about Melsa] She's prob [...] D