Phantom of 42nd Street (1945) MYSTERY

Stars: Dave O'Brien, Kay Aldridge, Alan Mowbray
Director: Albert Herman
A theater critic teams up with a cop to investigate the murder of a Broadway actor.

[@lizlocher3612]

Best line in decades "Well, what a nasty individual HE turned out to be!!" GREAT dialogue, ALWAYS fascetious n slightly snide, but humorously true, ergo, the person hearing it can relate to it from experience which makes it so humorous!!! Film Noir genre is my favourite!!! The best black n whites with the snappiest dialogue, the most elegant n classy wardrobes, furnishings, cars, n the total ambience of the movie resonates a time gone by that had a mist unique n stimulating hue or feel n look to the entire film!!! Thanks for posting on this lonesome chilly n rainy Saturday night 🌃 🌉🌃 tripping down the comfort n exciting memory lane!!!👍🤩😌🎉🌈🌚💋👏🌠🌘🦩🥂🌆🎑🎩🪄📽️

[@janmeyer7074]

Frank Jenks can steal every scene he's in. He's terrific! 😆

[@AdeleCeleste]

Well done! These old movies always have good stories and good acting. Thank you for posting! :-)

[@auntiejen5376]

Another great old movie! Perfect blend of drama and comedy...

[@Theswerethebestthebest]

I must to see this movie at least 6 times but you know this the kind of movie you could never get tired of thank you for uploading it I really enjoyed the movie

[@DavidRice111]

@19:21, the background music is Boccherini's String Quintet in E major, Op. 11 #5~ in case you wondered : )

[@1VirginiaL]

One of my favourites...so I went there first to hear it, now will watch the film. :)

[@billiewilson5197]

Thank You for the feature this afternoon, It was fine acting and just a tad funny🤗.

[@coolroy4300]

A little lol ,haha

[@CissyBrazil]

I love in old movies they say “get a load of this” lol. Fun movie!

[@SuperIliad]

The Phantom of 42nd Street, released 2 May 1945 (USA). 7 December 1945 (London, UK), 25 February 1946 (UK). Dave O'Brien as Tony Woolrich; Kay Aldridge as Claudia Moore; Alan Mowbray as Cecil Moore; Frank Jenks as Romeo; Edythe Elliott as Janis Buchanan; Jack Mulhall as Lt. Walsh; Vera Marshe as Ginger; Stanley Price as Reggie Thomas; John Crawford as John Carraby; Cyril Delevanti as Roberts; Paul Power as Timothy Wells; Fred Aldrich, Detective; Budd Buster, Stage Doorman Mike; Tom Coleman, Senator in Play; Oliver Cross, Theater Patron; Tom Ferrandini, Theatre Patron; Joe Gilbert, Theatre Patron; Pat Gleason, Reporter; Milton Kibbee as Newspaper Editor Peters; Robert Locke Lorraine, Detective; Hans Moebus, Senator in Play; Norman Stevans, Theatre Patron; Harry Strang, Policeman; Robert Strange, Soothsayer in Play; Al Walton, Restaurant Patron.

[@ninajefferson9743]

Now this mystery got me. I never even suspected. Wow. Great flowing through.

[@almeggs3247]

PF. You are a real loyal honest person god bless you bringing us these gems w/o any obvious monetary gain!

[@duke9555]

KZbinrs can and often get some dough ............some get millions

[@rhianayoung1846]

Say, what're you, a wiseguy?

[@michaelwertzy9808]

@@rhianayoung1846, I'm way too stupid to be a wise guy, more like a dumb guy!

[@michaelwertzy9808]

@@duke9555, It sure has worked for me!

[@stuart8663]

Just an observation : "Mike" the (perhaps) Stage Manager is a very convincing natural actor. Esp at 26:49 Its the little parts that make a big picture.

[@nedludd7622]

Just imagine the amount of metal that went into those cars.

[@muniryassin9351]

I am not going to pull your chestnuts out of the fire 🔥 Haha 😂

[@josephdodd5770]

It is always funny in old movies that the driver of the car gets in the passenger side and slide to diver side. Very strange

[@DavidRice111]

Most cars had bench seats and parallel parked. That's how it was taught at the licensing bureau back then- kept you out of traffic.

[@hollandnine]

I thought I was the only one who ever noticed that!

[@nancyallen628]

My Grandfather always did - for safety reasons

[@maxsands3861]

Much safer, I miss bench seats. Cars lack class now.

[@michaelwertzy9808]

With scuba gear? Are you "Diver Dan"?

[@jonimoroni7475]

The cabbie was my favorite character...he was the most natural compared to the others. Cheesy and schmaltzy, but fun!

[@robertwalker5521]

Without researching, I will guess Frank Jenks was in 200 movies.

[@leelarson107]

@@robertwalker5521 He made 195 appearances, in films and TV combined.

[@robertwalker5521]

@@leelarson107 ...I read that he was on Walter Brennan's level:. No ego problem, all the stars and extras loved working with him; he had the respect of everyone:. Camera operators, lighting, set decorators, sound .EVERYBODY! Two classy gentlemen.

[@dr.elizabethmartin7118]

fin movie of old new york............cheers

[@bodegabreath4258]

Thanks for this also. I lived in the Big 🍎 for more years than I can count. (Math was never my métier. I try to stay out of the double digits. I don’t, I end up hopelessly lost or in trouble... or both.) You can put book on this when I tell you that I’ve seen the Phantom of 42nd Street. Or rather one of his offspring, anyway, this movie having been before I was a gleam in my old man’s eye. He used to hang around the penny arcades and the peep shows and the burlesque houses and the Orange Julius stands and the Nathan’s Hot Dog joint and he’d oogle - no, not Google - ogle - all the good looking dames he’d set his 👁 👁 on and make comments to them what you wouldn’t want to repeat to your mother. A real creep. Course this was before the Big 🍎’s sanitation dept went in there with a jumbo sized bottle of Lysol and a mop and cleaned house, you understand. And don’t ask me how I knew the Phantom of 42nd Street hung around the penny arcades and the peep shows and the burlesque houses and ogled all the good looking dames. I just know, is all. At any rate, the Big 🍎 used to be a lot more interesting than it is now.

[@nilo70]

Really enjoyed this

[@brucebaker810]

"Cassius waits without, Sire." Without what? She asks. Well, this is a mystery. So maybe "a clue"?

[@robertwalker5521]

Probably in the foyer. That's in the house but not WITHIN the living area.

[@brucebaker810]

@@robertwalker5521 I used to listen to a TON of audiobooks. Almost all of them seemed to include "foyer". Pronounced both ways. But usually rhyming with lawyer. A little thing I'd usually do is repeat it, loudly. Matching the pronunciation. (I live alone.)

[@angelamagruder5911]

This was a very enjoyable movie,missing hot buttered popcorn,chips,candy,drinks,oh well,still an interesting movie!!!!!!

[@beckyjacobsen5867]

That’s gonna be one expensive tab for monopolizing the cabbie thru the whole movie,haha

[@yomama8873]

Thank you 🤩🤩🤩💖💖

[@leilal8053]

Why does the daughter have a southern accent and the father an English one??? Anyway. LOVE these old "Who Done Its ". 😊

[@gloglo9478]

60

[@scarygary-qq1pj]

​@@gloglo9478Ozginna.

[@thatguyinelnorte]

ACTing...

[@leilal8053]

@@thatguyinelnorte That does not answer the ???.....2 different accents aren't explained.

[@kathleenmckeithen118]

Thank you, Pizza!!

[@maxb4074]

I love PRC Pictures!

[@neilangus4401]

Love these movies made during the war Such a paraell

[@virginiastevens3782]

The English father of the girl played parts with Basil Rathbone in Sherlock Holmes.

[@robertwalker5521]

Colonel Sebastian Bleach ?

[@tylercarta433]

This was good!

[@sambucas.4645]

I wish there was a description of the movie

[@Babydux]

Interesting story with good acting. MUSIC not so great though.😉

[@graemesmith6721]

"You better have an air-tight alibi!" No, he doesn't need one. People are innocent until proven guilty. Having no alibi is not evidence of guilt. And if the police arrest him and he turns out to be innocent, he can sue them for false arrest. This is why they don't arrest people unless they have a solid case against them. And how is it the killer fired a gun in a crowded theater and nobody heard it? This movie is okay, good performances by all the leads, and the idea of a theater critic solving a murder is original. The script is kind of weak, however, since it requires the killer to do something abysmally stupid to be caught.

[@beckyjacobsen5867]

PizzaFlix. I know you post cartoons also,but we are not allowed to comment. What’s the deal. I got no real answer from the site. It makes no sense. They want you to switch over to kids cartoons. I don’t want any of that new crap, I want what I grew up with. Anyone have any answers? Now to the movie,love these old black and whites

[@PizzaFLIX]

It's the new COPPA act: Children's Online Privacy Protection act. If a video is deemed made for children, no comments are allowed and advertisers cannot target them.

[@randygriffith1209]

The old movies was more intertaining.

[@larrycarmody8325]

Who in Hell was it that did the killings.? I didn't understand who it was, was it the door man or someone else.?

[@Corgis175]

Light but enjoyable fare.

[@huntingthekaiser6490]

So Dave O'Brien's real last name was Fronabarger--about as Irish as the Kaiser--and he was Joe Doakes from the comedy shorts. I remember him. He died rather young but he must have been doing OK because he raced yachts. He appeared as a cowboy in a few Westerns as "Tex O'Brien"--too bad he hadn't the nerve to be Tex Fronabarger. Alan Mowbray is currently appearing a ghost in a downtown L.A. bar he used to hang out at (no, I'm not fooling).

[@freedomspirit2000]

Which bar is that?

[@robertwalker5521]

Impossible :. Sherlock arrested him in Scotland and sent him to prison (That was after he was in business with My Man Godfrey)

[@huntingthekaiser6490]

@@freedomspirit2000 Sorry I didn't answer you sooner. I watched a video on the ghosts of Hollywood one time and the ghost hunters went into a bar where he was said to be the resident spirt. I didn't pay attention to the bar's name. I believe I remember it being near Hollywood and Vine. Mawbray used to walk to it just about every afternoon and knock back a few. After he kicked the bucket, they said, he still hung around. If you search for that video on the Internet chances are you'll find it.

[@almeggs3247]

Boy I spoke too soon This movie is full of interruptions!

[@almeggs3247]

But still a great mystery thanks

[@marthahanley6650]

+al meggs I haven't watched it yet; however, I'm sure you mean ads? Simple. Simply install an ad blocker. They are free. Simply google: ad block plus *or* UBlock. UBlock works *much* better.

[@JamesJackson-sp2kp]

I don't see any ads or interruptions, what are you doing different? Are you using KZbin app or some 3rd party viewer?

[@jandasalovich6469]

No interruptions here.

[@scarygary-qq1pj]

I knew this was going to be a good movie when I saw that it was approved with certificate #10735.🙄

[@janibeg3247]

Kay Aldridge's last film before she retired

[@STORMY0O]

Once again to many commercials! Ruins the viewing and plot!

[@thomasgansevoort929]

I always enjoy Frank Jenks, Alan Mowbray rather under used here gives a magnificent performance in "That Hamilton Woman". I apologize to everyone who likes this movie but I think it's badly acted and not well written. It feels more like it was scripted by a writer of serials more than a full feature writer. In fact I watched it over a four night period as I found it too formulaic, and like Larry Carmody in the comments section I also didn't get who did the murders as there was no establishing shot. I just can't bring myself to go back into this inferior film to figure it out. And oh yes, I did like the waitress who blew her chance to be on the stage. I thought she played it well, and was the only bright spark in the film. No denigration implied toward Frank Jenks.

[@lizlocher3612]

Correction: comfortable n exciting memory lane!!

[@Sam16mee]

Pull your chestnuts out of the fire. Lol

[@divaden47]

Love the way some Americans pronounce the name Cecil.....Ceesil! 🤗

[@robertwalker5521]

Cessil and Bazzil

[@waderaney7]

👍☺

[@philthycat1408]

Tonys voice is so subdued, it slightly annoying.

[@duke9555]

Dramatic critic lol

[@locutusdborg126]

They were very common back in the day, when people went to plays instead of superhero movies.

[@duke9555]

@@locutusdborg126 I lived in Manhattan went to Bway regularly ate at the Automat Sardis & 21 ..........after a brutal night of drinking it was Bickford's on 14th st

[@locutusdborg126]

@@duke9555 Cool. I was born in Manhattan and grew up on Long Island, or as we say it, lon guy land.

[@duke9555]

@@locutusdborg126 Lonk iland / if you were reasonably well off "The Island" meant the island of long if you were of the criminal class it meant Rikers