I liked this movie. It provided a nice change of pace from the usual mysteries I've been getting from The Internet Archive with murders committed by greedy relatives, jealous lovers, madmen, and such. The story starts as a pair of friends reunite at a New York hotel where, unbeknownst to them, something nasty has occurred. The story is peppered with goofiness, which made it that much better.
Shots are fired, a burned ear bone is discovered, the hotel management is evasive. The second act moves along nicely as the friends investigate. A young woman had been wronged.
I could empathize with the situation the young woman was placed in by conspirators associated with a hotel. It was a nightmare, like one would expect to find in a Hitchcock movie, and it drew me into the story. Of course, her and her friend's reaction to her predicament was goofy.
There's a close-up scene of what looked like her moving her purse behind her back when she's confronted by her enemies in her friend's bungalow that I had to watch a few times. The director just didn't communicate what was happening. He could have, but it becomes clear a little later.
Other parts of the third act take place in a funeral home where more laughable activities occur. There's also the outright nonsense of a funeral parlor without cremation facilities, so its director had to use a hotel room fireplace.
"The hardest part of the human anatomy to destroy by fire, or any other means, is the ear bone."
There are ear bones! See
this page.
That ear bone nonsense had me recalling that I'd seen this movie on TV years ago.
I downloaded the 437MB AVI file. Video quality was good, though like many movies here at IA, it was improved markedly by nudging the brightness control on my video player up a bit. The audio quality was fine.