A Night to Remember (1942 film)

A Night to Remember is a mystery comedy film starring Loretta Young and Brian Aherne. It was directed by Richard Wallace, and is based on the novel The Frightened Stiff by Kelley Roos. A mystery writer and his wife try to solve a murder when a corpse appears in their Gay Street apartment.

Jeff recognizes the basement apartment as a former speakeasy and that the monster the housekeeper was afraid of is a turtle called Old Hickory. Jeff and Nancy figure out that all the residents were being blackmailed by a man named Andrew Bruhl, who used to be a private investigator. Bruhl made all the people being blackmailed live in one building to keep an eye on them.Jeff and Nancy figure out that Bruhl killed Kaufman, and that Bruhl is someone who lives in the building. The suspects are Anne Carstairs her husband, Scott Carstairs Eddie Turner, the landlord Polly Franklin, who works at a local restaurant Lingle, another resident and the housekeeper, Mrs. Salter. ........

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