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The Mysterious Mr. Valentine

"THE PAY-OFF WAS MURDER!"

User Score13 votes
41%4.1/10
Release1946
Runtime0H 56M
LanguageEnglish
StatusReleased

Synopsis

Janet Spencer is driving down a country road when one of her tires blows out. This seemingly innocuous, everyday occurrence leads Linda into a labyrinth of murder, blackmail and intrigue.

Principal Cast8

Full Cast & Crew (27)

Media4

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Director

Philip Ford

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Certification

NR

Keywords

film noir

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Reviews1

CinemaSerf5/10

"Janet" (Linda Stirling) gets a puncture and seeks the assistance of "Armstrong" (Tristram Coffin) incurring the chagrin of that man's rather jealous wife "Rita" (Barbara Wooddell). To make matters worse, she now drives off in the wife's car only to collide with another car and then find herself embroiled in a previous, and fatal, hit-and-run with the partner of the husband of the wife of the car she is driving. Still with me? Now she engages the help of PI "Morgan" (William Henry) to try to get to the bottom of an internecine mystery that involves fraud, insurance and mysterious women. It packs quite a lot of plot into an hour, but the acting and the dialogue is banal at best with very basic production values that smack more of television than cinema. It probably looked OK at a drive-in when the audience maybe had better things to do, and it really is pretty instantly forgettable fayre.

Feb 12, 2023

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Production:Republic Pictures