Wallace Ford and Barbara Pepper are a pair of eloping store detectives and Ford
is most proud of the fact that he does have the title of detective. When they
check into an out of season inn waiting for a justice of the peace to arrive three
murders occur among the guests and Ford decides to investigate. The rest take
it on face value that he's law enforcement.
This is not too bad a film for a poverty row product. The cheapness of the
sets even adds some value to the atmosphere the director wanted to create.
As it turns out Ford and Pepper are the outsiders in more ways than one. All
the guests have been summoned to this place the way Agatha Christie summoned her victims in Ten Little Indians.
I can't reveal the murderer by praising the cast member's performance by name, but I will say the scene where all is revealed is one for the books. What
a piece of scenery chewing.
Cheap though Rogues Tavern is I think you'll enjoy it.
