utgard14 "B" mystery comedy starring George Zucco. Zucco's character kills a guy and then a reporter hides the body in a wax museum (!) to get the scoop. Bizarre. Then the owner of the museum finds the body and hides it again to avoid suspicion. Huh? From there the assorted characters are all hiding or looking for the body. Zucco's good as usual. William Gargan and Ann Savage are two reporters with history. Savage is the one who initially finds the corpse. Both are fine. Nice supporting cast includes Leo Gorcey, George E. Stone, Paul Hurst, Don Beddoe, and Charles Halton. Gorcey uses some of his Bowery Boys shtick here, throwing malapropisms around right & left. I normally like that in the Bowery movies but here it kind of grates on my nerves. This is a perfectly watchable little B movie but absolutely nothing is memorable about it. You'll forget it five minutes after you watch it.

Rainey Dawn This one is rather boring and could have been better if they left out the lame comedy (mainly from Clutch Tracy) and turned it into a pure mystery-thriller! This one really is "stagy" and seems to drag in lots of places. For me, the only parts that are somewhat good are with George Zucco and he's not in the film all that much it's mainly the other cast members that take center stage or should I say center "stagy"?! This one is a case of who has the corpse now and takes place mainly in a wax museum or Sue Gallagher's (Savage) upstairs apartment, which is above and within the wax museum.The film is "okay" I guess but definitely NOT Zucco's nor Savage's best film - this might be their worst film or pretty close to it.3/10

kidboots This is a comedy who-done-it set in and around "The Last Gangster" wax museum. George Zucco plays Jelke, who kills Joe Wells (George E. Stone)who dies on the steps of the wax museum. Gallagher (Ann Savage)finds the body and sets it up as one of the exhibits.The killer returns and it is a race to see if they can get the body to the police before the murderer strikes again.The really interesting thing about this film is every part is played by people known by all. You can have fun guessing where you have seen them before.George E. Stone - looking a lot older than I remember him was always memorable in "42nd Street", "Little Ceasar" and "Cimarron".Ann Savage, who had such a different role in "Detour" plays Gallagher, a snappy reporter.Leo Gorcey seemed to make quite a few movies away from the Bowery Boys - he plays the young, wise-cracking museum assistant.George Zucco was always the dour scientist or professor in lots of these B or C films.William Gargan, who was a familiar face in the 1930s played Gallagher's boyfriend, Pete Willis.Ben Weldon, who always looked the same - he mostly played thugs and hoodlums in films like "Marked Woman" turns up for one scene as a hotel manager.Paul Hurst was in it as well - playing a policeman. He always seemed to play baddies, especially in westerns. He has over 300 movies listed on IMDb.

sol ***Major Spoilers*** With free-lance hit man Jelke, George Zucco, tracking down his quarry diamond thief Peter Bernett, George E. Stone, from Uruguay South America to a mid-town Manhattan hotel he surprises and guns him down when he answers the door. Taking $250,000.00 in diamonds that Barnett had on him Jelke goes to call a cab to have Barnett's body taken and later dumped, by Jelke, in the East River.There's also an alert for a New York gangster Joe Wells who's been either dead or on the lamb for five years and the state is willing to pay $5,000.00 to find and prove who he is, dead or alive. You see both Peter Barnett & Joe Wells are one and the same person. Wells badly hurt from being shot by Jelke struggles to his feet and staggers across the street from his hotel to the Last Gangster Wax Museum and collapses and dies. Later girl reporter Sue Gallagher, Ann Savage, finds the dead Wells on the museum staircase and hides it so that she can later get the reward for proving that the elusive Joe Wells case has finally been solved. Unknown to her and the police and Sue's friends Jelke has a lot more to gain if Joe Wells stays lost then they do in having him found. Humorous crime/drama about a stiff, Joe Wells, who stiffed everyone looking for him by getting stiffed and hidden in the car trunk of police let.Max Hurley,Don Beddoe, who's been in charge of finding the stiff for five years. George Zucco seems too refined and sophisticated to be a hoodlum in the movie, he's much better playing mad doctors and scientists. There's also that expert in the proper use of diction in the English language Leo Gorcey, Clutch Tracy, in the film playing an attendant at the wax museum who shows us how he can magically make a lighted cigar butt last for over an hour which was the length of the movie.