Dressed to Kill (1941 film)

Dressed to Kill is a 1941 crime mystery starring Lloyd Nolan, Mary Beth Hughes and Sheila Ryan. The film was based on The Dead Take No Bows, a mystery novel by Richard Burke.

It turns out that the hotel maid Emily Virginia Brissac has discovered two dead people producer Louis Lathrop, owner of the hotel and the adjoining theater, and Desiree Vance, one of Lathrops actresses. Both are dressed up in medieval costumes. Lathrop also has the head from a dog costume on him.Police Investigator Pierson William Demarest arrives at the scene and learns from the hotel manager, Hal Brennon Charles Amt, that the costumes seem to be from Lathrops only successful show, Sweethearts of Paris, from many years before. On the cast of the show was Desiree as the leading lady, and Carlo Ralph Erwin Kalser as Beppo the Dog. Immediately Shayne suspects Carlo of being the killer, since there is a symbolism in placing the dog costume head on Lathrop. ........

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