Walter Connolly

Lionel Stander

Eduardo Ciannelli

Irene Hervey

Victor Kilian

Nana Bryant

Walter Kingsford

Ian Wolfe

Leonard Mudie

Rafaela Ottiano

Joseph Allen

Jonathan Hale

Edward McNamara

Kenneth Hunter

Charles Irwin

Jameson Thomas

Alfred E. Green

Rex Stout

Guy Endore

Eugene Solow

Edward Chodorov

George Parrish

Mystery

Crime

The League of Frightened Men

Columbia Pictures

United States of America

English

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Walter Connolly is really only competent in this rather lightweight crime thriller. His "Nero Wolfe" character is called upon to investigate the killings of some Harvard alumni many years after a hazing incident at the frat house went spectacularly wrong; leaving one poor fresher crippled. Now I've only read one or two of Rex Stout's books featuring this legendary, self-indulgent, detective and I can't say I ever really engaged with his character, or that of his sidekick "Archie" (Lionel Stander in this) and that didn't exactly help me appreciate this pretty formulaic, lacklustre even, drama that is pretty much a join the dots affair. Eduardo Ciannelli does his best to liven things up, but really it is the screenplay that lacks punch. The ending, when it comes, is almost as routine as if we were ending a chapter of a book before reading the next one - no real sense of suspense, jeopardy or even interest. The production is basic at best and well, nah, sorry - maybe one for "Wolfe" fans, but of little merit otherwise.

The League of Frightened Men

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