The Perfect Clue
"The Perfect Clue" 1935 directed by Robert G. Vignola, written by Albert DeMond from the story by Lolita Ann Westman. Majestic Pictures.
David Manners, Dorothy Libaire, Richard Skeets Galagher, William P. Carleton, Betty Blythe, Ralf Harolde, Ernie Adams, Robert Gleckler, Frank Darien, Charles C. Wilson, Sam McDaniels.
Dorothy Libaire is the real star of the movie, and she is charming as Mona Stewart once her heart is softened by love for wrongly convicted David Mannering (David Manners). Betty Blythe, once a silent screen star, is hardly in the film after the opening dinner scene. David Manners, who became a star with his roles in James Whales' "Journey's End" 1930 and "Dracula" 1931, who co-starred with Loretta Young, Helen Chandler, Katharine Hepburn, Ruth Chatterton, and Constance Bennett, was no longer in plum lead roles in major films and he would quit motion pictures altogether in 1936. Not that this is, in any way, a bad film. It actually holds up for the most part as an entertaining B picture.
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