The Lady in the Morgue

The Lady in the Morgue
1938
★★★☆☆ 6.2/10
⏱️ 67 min
📅 Released
🌐 EN
MysteryCrime
A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.

User Reviews

CinemaSerf
★ 6/10
June 20, 2022
Hold on to your hats - this doesn't (sorry) hang around. A woman's body is found in a dodgy hotel. The police think it suicide, but before anyone can establish who did what to whom - and, indeed, whom she actually was - the body goes AWOL. Investigating PI "Dick Crane" (Preston Foster) gets bumped over the head for his troubles as he attempts to convince the police his is not connected with the disappearing corpse, whilst he and his sidekick "Doc" (Frank Jenks) try to find the real culprits and repatriate the body to the morgue... This production is all very basic, the writing likewise, but Otis Garnett keeps the thing moving along hell-for-leather and what it lacks in substance it makes up for in enthusiasm. Maybe a bit too wordy, but still kills an hour ok.

Crew

Director
Otis Garrett
Writer
Eric Taylor, Robertson White

Production

Universal Pictures

Keywords

morguedisappearance