Sinner Take All

Name: Sinner Take All
Genre: Mystery
Released: 1936-12-18
Duration: 1 h 14 min
Rating: 5.7
Cast: Bruce Cabot, Margaret Lindsay, Joseph Calleia

1936
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1h 14m

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5.7/10

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Bruce Cabot and Margaret Lindsay in Sinner Take All (1936)

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Members of a wealthy family start getting threatening letters, and it's not long before the threats turn into reality and family members start getting bumped off. The family lawyer is a form... Read allMembers of a wealthy family start getting threatening letters, and it's not long before the threats turn into reality and family members start getting bumped off. The family lawyer is a former newspaper reporter, and since the family patriarch owns a newspaper, the lawyer uses hi... Read allMembers of a wealthy family start getting threatening letters, and it's not long before the threats turn into reality and family members start getting bumped off. The family lawyer is a former newspaper reporter, and since the family patriarch owns a newspaper, the lawyer uses his investigative experience and the newspaper's resources to dig into the family history to... Read all

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IMDb RATING

5.7/10

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YOUR RATING

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Trivia
This was columnist/TV panelist Dorothy Kilgallen's film debut, and only movie as an actress apart from a gag cameo in Pajama Party (1964) 28 years later. Fittingly, she plays a reporter.

Goofs
When the New Jersey hotel owner enters David's room; he tells Ernie and the cops that someone has to pay for the door. But the cop next to him mouths some words that appears to be"shut up" but there is no audio or sound coming out of the cop's mouth.

Quotes
Police Captain Bill Royce: What was the idea of jailing Lorraine Lampier? The Commissioner had me on the carpet five minutes after Bacomb got her out.
Ernie Hyams: What did you expect me to do? Take her along to Hoboken?
Police Captain Bill Royce: Well, I've known you to take girls to funnier places than Hoboken.

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Stompin' at the Savoy
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Written by Edgar M. Sampson, Benny Goodman and Chick Webb
Played at the casino before the featured number

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5/10

A typical know-it-all reporter solving crimes story.

In the 1930s and 40s, Hollywood made a bazillion B-mystery movies where amateurs often were smarter and more capable at solving murders than the cops! Typically, the cops were pretty dumb and a reporter (or some other non-policeman) solved everything! If they'd only made a few of them, I would probably have enjoyed "Sinner Take All", but the familiarity of the film make it just a simple time-passer and nothing more.

In a change in typical casting, Bruce Cabot plays reporter Ernie Hyams. A say a change because most of the time, Cabot played bad guys! In this story, rich family members start getting threatening letters....and soon, they start getting killed off as well. Ernie manages to put it all together by the end.

Nothing unusual of noteworthy here. Cabot is quite good and the film competently made....but not exactly memorable either. BY tomorrow, I'll probably have forgotten most of it!