The Night Club Lady (1932)

Mayo Methot has received several death threats, but insists on going to the New Year's Eve celebration at her night club. NY Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt (Adolph Menjou) reads lips to discover her problem. He talks to her and she lets him read the note. A shot is fired at her, unnoticed in the noise, and Menjou insists that she go home. He and his men search her apartment and then settle in to wait until midnight. Greta Granstedt, her maid, thinks she sees a prowler, but it is only one of Menjou's men. At the stroke of midnight Methot collapses. The doctor pronounces it heart failure, but Menjou thinks it is murder. He questions all the pertinent suspects. Then, in the time-honored fictional detective manner, he calls together all the suspects, all of whom have a shady past in one way or another and all of whom had a motive to kill Methot. After warning all of them, he lets them go. Later, Menjou discovers that the doctor at the scene of the crime knew before he examined her that she was dead. Then they find a deadly scorpion that had been planted in her robe. Then Menjou calls the group together again to recreate the crime. He finally reveals that Methot's stage mother was the culprit.




Menjou


Granstedt