Stars: Noah Beery, Astrid Allwyn, Edwin Maxwell Director: William Nigh Writer: Edgar Wallace (novel) Police try to solve a murder on board an ocean liner.
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@saraanderson6615 Жыл бұрын
This came out five years before my mom was born, she taught me my love of old movies. Good memories of her and I watching them.
@PizzaFLIX Жыл бұрын
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@Prof.Tarfeather3 жыл бұрын
I really liked this one! Great pick! Author; Arthur B. Reeves, wrote a series of crime novels in the early part of the 20th Century featuring a Professor Craig Kennedy who used Science, forensics, and psychological profiling techniques to help law enforcement catch the more savvy criminals. One book, entitled The Dream Doctor published in 1913/1914 has a story about a submarine that is operated by remote control. By the way, the books are still on the market
@ksr72716 жыл бұрын
Good movie; story by Edgar Wallace - the famous crime fiction write of the 20s-50s I think. He had voluminous publications, working on 4 or 5 novels at the same time.... The idea of a 'writing pad' is incredible, about 50 years before the Apple Newton II came up!!! Worth watching. Thanks for posting it.
@lordeden27325 жыл бұрын
Actually the Victorians could send Photographs printed paper and drawings by wire at the end of the nineteenth Century
@graemesmith67212 жыл бұрын
Edgar Wallace is most famous today for writing the original treatment for King Kong. Unfortunately, he passed away before it was made into a movie.
@maryperkins58672 жыл бұрын
Thanks for all your comments. Makes me stay and watch!
@Jackielocks8 ай бұрын
@@maryperkins5867me too! The comments are so important, aren’t they? I get such a better feel of the quality of the the movie and if it’s worth watching from reading the comments first. If the comments are bad, I don’t bother watching the movie unless for some reason it’s a favourite of mine. People also love sharing whatever knowledge they have about the movie and anyone or thing connected with it. It can be fascinating!
@Jackielocks8 ай бұрын
I love these old movies- thanks so much for putting them on😊
@Johnnycdrums3 жыл бұрын
Noah Berry. Now I know I'm gonna' watch.
@61MARCOP3 жыл бұрын
I was wondering, was Noah Beery Wallace Beery's father?
@adamschneider53055 жыл бұрын
Before watching this I was thinking fondly of my grandparents. At the time this film was made my grandpa was 20 and my grandma 16. I love these old movies and just imagine what we now know and they still had ahead of them. WW 2 and such. May we leave our children and grandchildren fond memories as well.
@holmanrw4 жыл бұрын
My grandparents were in their fifties and sixties at that time.
@RalphDratman4 жыл бұрын
Umm.... I don't think so. Pandemic, anyone?
@hydriv4 жыл бұрын
Ah yes...........WWII Lots of fond memories such as the Atom Bomb, thousands of soldiers slaughtered every day, historical landmarks reduced to rubble, torture, rape, unspeakable atrocities and so on. Yes......those were the days, my friend. We thought they would never end.
@adamschneider53054 жыл бұрын
@@hydriv And yet we still have all of those things and more.
@653j5213 жыл бұрын
@@holmanrw To be that age at that time meant they went through WWI and the flu pandemic, Prohibition, the Dust Bowl, the Great Depression, and WWII. THEY were the greatest generation, not the next one who came of age in WWII.
@keithharvey72304 жыл бұрын
The old lady is great fun.I wonder if she had a long career on the stage.
@NYC19274 жыл бұрын
Anyone else find it interesting that their secretive "futuristic ideas" (remote control piloting and that "handwritten" FAX like machine) are both now part of our daily world? That is pretty interesting to see, especially coming from an early MONOGRAM picture. Lol!
@louisliu56384 жыл бұрын
I took typing in Grade 8 in the sixties because a Readers' Digest article said that the "keyboard" was going to take over the world!!!! No shit/
@louisliu56384 жыл бұрын
Me and the only other guy kid in the class got the two "A"s. Mrs. Watanabe was the teacher.
@NYC19274 жыл бұрын
Louis Liu Lollol!
@veeganboy3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, found that one of the most interesting aspects of the movie. Predicting the use of screen devices to send visual "text messages" back-and-forth over long-distances in real time.
@laurelvanhouten79247 ай бұрын
Watched this multiple times and always enjoyable.
@debbiegonzales13143 жыл бұрын
My dad would have been 2 years old when this was made
@michaelsutherland85483 жыл бұрын
My dad would have been 8.
@653j5213 жыл бұрын
I like her total change of attitude and stance at 2:50-2:57 or so.
@wildcatherder3 жыл бұрын
Very slow mystery at sea. You could make a drinking game by taking a slug every time they say "S-303". I don't drink but fell asleep three-quarters through. I did wake up for the surprise ending.
@johnstatser70887 жыл бұрын
When a sea captain needs a rest, does he go off on a nice long land voyage? Seyffertitz? I think I'd better get to know her a little better first. I never did trust a guy with one of them little upturned moustaches. No sailor would call that ship a boat. Magic writing! It's the communication of the future. When testing a new unknown remote control, load up the ship with unsuspecting passengers and make sure you can not over ride the device.
@mariovaccarella68545 ай бұрын
This is a pretty good movie, with Edwin Maxwell, who is a Character Actor, who, only the year before, was in Duck Soup, getting insulted, in A Cabinet Meeting, by Groucho Marx to the point of resigning as A Secretary of (Finance/Treasury or something) Fredonia. Also, is Noah Berry, who, I believe, is the Captain & Father of Noah Berry, Jr., a Character, who'd been in many movies, such as Of Mice & Men (1939) & who we younger generations know from The Rockford Files. Is that device they're working on, in this movie, what would go on to be Cruise Control? Let me know what you think & if I am right about Cruise Control.
@unstrungstudios8182 жыл бұрын
Idea for e mail back in 1934 ! 🕵
@CarolTilson5 жыл бұрын
There seems to be sone scenes missing, like when the the professor was attacked, or any other attacks on major players. (No spoilers - no names) Was it censorship or a time saving measure? The film is still pretty good, great ending!
@coachdlr13 жыл бұрын
Great movie great ending love these old black and white classics.
@mickeybruce73 Жыл бұрын
I was totally surprised when Snidley Whiplash turned out to be one of the good guys!
@colleenmcgrady63877 жыл бұрын
Remote driving of ships and cars too .. a prophetic movie . .. which makes me wonder why we have all our Navy around NK .. The russkies have their navy around our coastline .. all very strange .. wonder if they are remote controlled too ?
@johnross19475 жыл бұрын
Yes remote controlled and nuclear powered. S505 now controls 95% of the world.
@jackiel61838 жыл бұрын
I don't really know what that old woman had to do with the movie but she was so cute. It was a choppy movie but o.k. to watch.
@TheTwick7 жыл бұрын
Jackie L Yes, that old woman was the best actor of the bunch. Zeffie Tibury , born in London in 1863. You may remember her from "The Grapes of Wrath" and "Tobacco Road", as the grandma. Her full list of movies is too long to mention here. A great character actress of the early days of cinema.
@danielstanwyck28127 жыл бұрын
So nice when someone else knows about these great character actors and actresses - not here, except for Zeffie Tilbury. She also played the very glamorous con-artist with Marlene Dietrich in "Desire". They made the movies more meaningful when you'd see the old familiar face Whitty and Owen Nigel Bruce et al, who could play, like Tilbury, from rags to riches.
@kathleencampbell22984 жыл бұрын
@@TheTwick thanks 😊
@addie_is_me3 жыл бұрын
I like the acting, but don’t ask me what’s going on. From the comments I’m looking forward to how it all ends.
@addie_is_me3 жыл бұрын
Okay, good ending!
@darbyzworld4 жыл бұрын
Not the best, the dialogue is less than realistic but then again, so is the attrmpt at acting.
@cantseeneedcaps3 жыл бұрын
THE PLOT WAS PRETTY GOOD, OK MOVIE.
@1LSWilliam5 жыл бұрын
The first drone vessel?
@katiebiega80707 ай бұрын
What a queer lil movie odd Surprise ending but really what was it all about?! 😂
@murieltainter59363 жыл бұрын
14:20 I'm out.
@howard44mag8 жыл бұрын
3
@dennisanderson38953 жыл бұрын
Nice mystery-thriller, mixing intrigue with dashes of humor and keeping all guessing. Ah, back in the day!
@michelelane46622 жыл бұрын
My grandmother was a nurse during the 1918 pandemic and was the only medical person around for 100 miles. She said it lasted about 4 years. This was fascinating as when I was young and went to daddy/daughter day, I saw things that didn’t come out to the public for 20+ years or more. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie!
@marvinprice72843 жыл бұрын
One of the interesting things about this movie is the secondary story of drone warfare. They were testing radio control ships surmising that being able to put drones in the water would be better than using actual people won warships. Oddly enough I like to take the stories of old movies and compare them to newer movies and see if I can find plots that have been reused. In this case I am reminded of an episode of Star Trek called The Ultimate Computer in which they Enterprise is tasked with testing a new system for starships to be placed under computer control. I also enjoyed the imaginary technology of sending messages of handwritten text over radio waves. The text appeared on the receiving screen as fast as it was entered. It reminded me that FAXing was invented back in 1843.
@cantseeneedcaps3 жыл бұрын
I REMEMBER THAT STAR TREK, GOOD MEMORY BUDDY.
@PsilliPig3 жыл бұрын
Interesting observation. During the late 30's there were quite a few movies involving espionage and improved technology. At the time we were not at war, but with what was going on in Europe at the time with Mussolini's, and the Nazi's rise to power, we were, it appears, being made ready for war as a possibility.
@unstrungstudios8182 жыл бұрын
Very interesting look at old flicks 💖
@cattycorner82 жыл бұрын
1843? wow
@dukromeo Жыл бұрын
they faked video phone in the '50s and everyone falls for it to this day. "wow they had that tech way back then..." no. they had editing and no shame.
@veeganboy3 жыл бұрын
The sci-fi/hi-tech aspects of the film are a nice bonus to the murder and mystery elements! Kinda neat watching the 1930's version of "texting" complete with electronic notifications.
@MsCrazycatlady9 ай бұрын
I saw the investigator in another movie where he played a blind investigator with a seeing eye dog named Friday. It was a wonderful movie
@frances47976 ай бұрын
I saw that one recently also . Friday was an amazing dog! 🐕🦺
@Lightonahill254 жыл бұрын
PizzaFlix is my happy zone!
@PizzaFLIX4 жыл бұрын
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@jamesrhines53793 жыл бұрын
Charming, Absolutely! Granny has lines. She is funny.😄
@DSpeir-pi6tm4 жыл бұрын
This certainly is the Mystery Liner . I lost track of the movie somewhere and have no idea what's going on 😄
@Sraheens13 жыл бұрын
LOL! Brilliant! Cheers!
@MichaelGunner1232 жыл бұрын
SO TRUE! SAME HERE!
@elisabethshelley4758 Жыл бұрын
better sound and acting compared to present day
@chirellealanalooney78954 жыл бұрын
Mrs Plimpton reminded me of Hermione Gingold in Bell, Book & Candle, the way they both speak or talk. I really liked this classic movie.
@jamesmiller41845 жыл бұрын
A "Monogram Master Mystery!!' - how could it miss?
@randygriffith12092 жыл бұрын
I love these vintage movies 🎬
@almeggs32473 жыл бұрын
Adam. I do the same! I think about the ages of my parents and imagine they had seen the same movie I’m now watching! I also imagine we’re seeing it together! After all there is no time in heaven!
@benjamlnlewis68364 жыл бұрын
I liked the Aunt very much she did alot 4 the film
@keithharvey72304 жыл бұрын
The old lady is great fun.I wonder if she had a long career on the stage.
@laurasol34772 жыл бұрын
I truly enjoy her I am going to google her love her
@larrycarmody83253 жыл бұрын
With an Autopilot, GPS & Radar as big as a box of matches, today a ship can go anywhere without hitting anything including icebergs, or other ships, etc.
@brendamiller81403 жыл бұрын
Not bad at all I will watch more as time goes by. Thank you so much. 👍👍👍🤗
@douglasmacgregor38784 жыл бұрын
The ship reminds me of the one I came to America on as a young boy.
@lindabelcher73634 жыл бұрын
Dougless..where do you sail from and what year?
@omarkuhl45954 жыл бұрын
@@lindabelcher7363 to
@kayeanderson36223 жыл бұрын
Hey Douglas!! This is a 1934 film !! What boat 🚣♀️ did you come in on?✌️😎
@douglasmacgregor38783 жыл бұрын
@@kayeanderson3622 SS Captain Cook in 1955
@653j5213 жыл бұрын
@@douglasmacgregor3878 Probably the same ships. :)
@YO3A00710 ай бұрын
PizzaFlix, How did I miss this gem?!!
@sjr78226 жыл бұрын
Even when the plot doesn't interest me, the characters do, esp the old woman
@mariaconsiglio20338 ай бұрын
Wow what an amazing movie!!!!!! Even if they remade it , it would never be the same….
@dave10013 жыл бұрын
couldn't really make heads or tails of it
@tokofora87833 жыл бұрын
If we could turn back time to the good old days where we not living life in the fast lane. Now everybody seems lost in touch with reality and as a consequence time moves faster
@graemesmith67212 жыл бұрын
Not so good back then if you weren't a straight white Christian male.
@MichaelGunner1232 жыл бұрын
Beginning is a bit convoluted & difficult to follow.
@frankmccann29 Жыл бұрын
Pizza flix you're the 👌 best. Love this movie and I'm just telling the great people involved in this great platform 👍.
@jessjames22026 жыл бұрын
Good example of good audio. Thanks! It CAN be done attention to the small stuff like the sound IS important. Don't mean to gripe but some of the best movies just have next to no audio...
@vebnew9 ай бұрын
Good old black and white movie with a lot of humor and Mystery
@richardw3470 Жыл бұрын
Grandpa from Lassie, Gabby Hayes and the usual 'suspects'. The Beery family had a 'body type'.
@pwood57333 жыл бұрын
Other benefits back then were they used a try pod, the spoke clearly, the music was back ground not foreground and none of the women do that disgusting fake croaking when they speak. Utter pleasure to watch these great films
@marypatten9655 Жыл бұрын
So happy an subscribed to your channel. You give me such great old time videos to watch. Streight forward drama Thank you God bless
@PizzaFLIX Жыл бұрын
Hi Mary 🍕Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX. May the Sauce be with you 🍕
@graemesmith67212 жыл бұрын
The old lady was hilarious. The screenplay was based on a story by Edgar Wallace, one of the most famous and successful fiction writers of the day. He is perhaps best remembered as the author of the original treatment for King Kong, though unfortunately he didn't live to see the movie made. One point, though. Being under radio control would not increase the ship's speed. Every ship has what is known as a "hull speed," which is the maximum speed it's capable of based on the hydrodynamic properties of its hull. Putting a more powerful engine in it won't make it go any faster. The additional force would just create more resistance, which would eventually cause the hull to buckle and tear the ship apart.
@girlgeniusNYC4 жыл бұрын
Very odd delivery of the lines. Are they reading from cue cards?
@angelamagruder59113 жыл бұрын
Good movie they caught the bad people and even were able to enjoy a good laugh!!!!!!
@vernalc24494 жыл бұрын
The first IM! Way ahead of its time. Was that snap, crackle and pop a commercial for cereal?? LOL
@robertansley63314 жыл бұрын
Like _Metropolis_ , Mystery Liner employs Jacob’s Ladders that serve no real purpose other than to shoot arcs of electricity up into the air. Looks scientific anyway.
@Horse2375 жыл бұрын
Astrid Allwyn, the nurse, was a Swedish American actress. She retired early to devote herself to raising her 3 children from 2 marriages. One of her daughters played on the Munsters.
@addie_is_me3 жыл бұрын
I hope she enjoyed her life, but I’m sorry she left movies. She is very good, as good as Beery.
@allenwatkins49722 жыл бұрын
Munsters?? No.
@anombrerose6311 Жыл бұрын
Very Good, Very Entertaining! Very Good Plot! The bad guy! Good Movie.
@NefertitiNubianQueen Жыл бұрын
Awww bless you. I'm sure this truly brought back wonderful memories for you. It's about leaving a legacy & that may mean whatever you want it to be. I think it's beautiful that you've added your grandparents ❤. Is it alright to say that they live on as it were through these movies 🎬? Take care 🙂
@maryd.tindall59434 жыл бұрын
Nice turn about of events at the end. 👍🏿👍🏿
@nancyrobles10054 жыл бұрын
Great movie😉one of a kind !!
@danielstanwyck28129 жыл бұрын
Gabby Hayes!! (George here). Great print. Dopey film.
@toshawhatareyoudoing64104 жыл бұрын
Anyone else notice they are texting each other?
@michaelsutherland85483 жыл бұрын
In cursive!
@patrickdsouza11832 жыл бұрын
BEAUTIFUL MOVIE.THE OLD GRANDMA'S ACT WAS SUPERB.
@ritaruble51273 жыл бұрын
I did not see or even recognize Noah Berry
@roderickfemm87994 жыл бұрын
Bystander: It's uncanny! Professor: It's ... science. Science on a par with Frankenstein 3 years earlier. The detective (Edwin Maxwell) reminds me a lot of the actor Edward Arnold (the rich father in You Can't Take it With You).
@beckyjacobsen58674 жыл бұрын
Yes he definitely reminds me of Edward Arnold
@madelinetramantano83023 жыл бұрын
I SAID THE SAME THING.
@aspenrebel3 жыл бұрын
The captain seemed fit for command to me.
@leelarson1072 жыл бұрын
VERRRY INTERESTING. This was made in 1934, with Adolf Hitler newly installed as Fuhrer, and already we've got propaganda films about 'KNOTT-ZEES' (strongly hinted at) running loose. All they needed after this was Robert Taylor as the US Navy officer and Conrad Veight & Martin Kosleck as the villains. Jawohl.
@DavidRice1112 жыл бұрын
Oddly, Gustav von Seyffertitz was actually older than Zeffie Tilbury, though he looked younger.
@tedbaxter52344 жыл бұрын
Fun movie - thank you!
@richardnailhistorical34454 ай бұрын
Best part of this movie is it has 'Gibby Hayes' in it, without 'Old Gibby' no movie back then was considered genuine. This was when Old Gibby was still shaving in the morning, not long after this movie Gibby's hangover's in morning prevented him from seeing straight enough to shave, hence beard sprouts and slurred speech and 'Old Gibby' is born - we luv ya Gibby!
@willimacdo5 жыл бұрын
8:30 crackling and flashing is never a good sign
@cesellhall7194 жыл бұрын
A surprising ending 👍.
@leelarson1073 жыл бұрын
Edwin Maxwell, the bad guy toward the end in this film, was also in 'The 9th Guest' this same year, and played a less-than-pleasant character there as well.
@leelarson107 Жыл бұрын
He also played a crook in 'Romance On the Run' (1938).
@RRaquello8 ай бұрын
He almost always played unpleasant characters but once in a while played a detective. He was also in "Duck Soup" as one of the ministers in President Groucho's cabinet where he gets insulted and resigns, LOL.
@PatriciaFearnley Жыл бұрын
I love old and new film's but if I had a wish I would loved to have lived in the 20s the style and look it would be fantastic.
@80sbeginner6 жыл бұрын
52:06 "never so bored in all my life".............. I rest my case ;) thanks Pizza.
@randalmontgomery45953 жыл бұрын
fascinating old fashioned script and acting and camera shots, like a play. Hard to believe they had radio control way back then.
@apfelsnutz4 жыл бұрын
So I see Gabby Hayes is aboard ship as a steward....
@hydriv4 жыл бұрын
George did get around in those years.
@stephaniehand5034 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@cathydonnellan91745 жыл бұрын
Amazing tec for the day. Some are now being used in reality
@KelleyStrzelczyk4 жыл бұрын
Did the old bat say her name was Clinton of Rochester?
@MrCraigblaze4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the upload XD
@peggybegin82416 ай бұрын
Everyone appears guilty😂 Love these old mysteries❤
@WJack972246 жыл бұрын
SciFi prescience perhaps a bit, though scientists had developed radio controlled aircraft and bombs by and during WW II. I enjoyed the movie. Thanks for posting. Good on ya mate.
@virnamisra1657 Жыл бұрын
Oh to be on the rails at high sea. 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 🎾🎾
@alext8828 Жыл бұрын
S-505 is hemorrhoid cream. It's crap. I tried it.
@JMxx62046 жыл бұрын
Gustav Von Seyffertitz. Really? A name to conjure wth.
@keithharvey72304 жыл бұрын
He was one of the great silent villains.
@dianevitale12146 жыл бұрын
unusual. Almost pulled the plug on it, but had to see where it went.
@mikedrown2721 Жыл бұрын
My grandparents were born in the early 1890's and my parents were born in 1916 and myself in 1946... time flies too fast. Good movie. The Olympic is still in service in 1934
@w.a.a.2 жыл бұрын
Fun to see the technical gadgetry here which was created by Kenneth Strickfaden and famously used in Universal's Frankenstein films.
@Sky-hz1cc3 жыл бұрын
Well, they lost me when the group of men boarded the ship, walked past the nurse, conversed with doctor and never acknowledged the woman standing beside them. Next.
@katiebiega80707 ай бұрын
Starting to watch at 0900 1 2024
@stewartmoore69814 жыл бұрын
They saved on the electricity with this. It left me rather in the dark.
@MrCraigblaze4 жыл бұрын
Yes the did..Me too.. XD
@richardhardaker45863 жыл бұрын
Whilst thanks for posting, sadly sound was often unintelligible, making it impossible to follow