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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) Passed | 92 min | … Tom Jolliffe on why the 30’s to 50’s were a golden age for mystery films… Whether it’s a murder mystery, or a cat and mouse quest to uncover a mystery, the 1930’s, up until the end of the. Hill: Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Robert Montgomery: United. Such were the circumstances of the Park Lane Mystery, which were further complicated by entire absence of motive, since, as I have said, young Adair was not known to have any enemy, and no attempt had been made to remove the money or valuables in the room.1930s Detective Movies. And yet there was the dead man and there the revolver bullet, which had mushroomed out, as soft-nosed bullets will, and so inflicted a wound which must have caused instantaneous death. Again, Park Lane is a frequented thoroughfare there is a cab stand within a hundred yards of the house. Suppose a man had fired through the window, he would indeed be a remarkable shot who could with a revolver inflict so deadly a wound. But how did he come by his death? No one could have climbed up to the window without leaving traces.

Apparently, therefore, it was the young man himself who had fastened the door. Marks upon the narrow strip of grass which separated the house from the road.
