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Bill Crane, a private detective with no weakness as an investigator but large ones for blondes and straight-whiskey, gets a call from his attorney friend, Charles Frazee, with a request to find evidence that will free Robert Westland, who is under death sentence for murdering his wife. Crane immediately runs into a barrage of machine-gun fire, and a blonde, Agatha Hogan, only slightly less dangerous. After a night of wine, women and song, Crane picks up a clue that may aid Wstland. With the help of a deep-sea diver, a stop watch, and a taxicab driver, he is sprinting after the real culprit...just as Westland is starting his last mile to the electric chair.
A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside.
During the second half of the 1930s, Jonathan Latimer wrote five screwball mysteries featuring Chicago private eye Bill Crane. When not boozing or snoozing, his highest priorities, he cleverly unraveled complicated crimes.<br/><br/>The first of three Universal* &quot;crime club&quot; films made from the novels is The Westland Case (1937). It is based on Headed for a Hearst (1935). The other two films are The Lady in the Morgue (1938) and The Last Warning (1938). All three starred Preston Foster as Bill Crane and Frank Jenks as Doc Williams, his assistant. All had different directors, and while the second, The Lady in the Morgue is the best by far, all are well worth watching.<br/><br/>In The Westland Case, six days before his execution, a wealthy businessman convicted of murdering his wife, retains an attorney (who then hires Crane and Williams) to exonerate him. (Look closely for a cameo by uncredited Ward Bond. He plays Connor, Westland&#39;s death row neighbor.) Unfortunately, however, all initial breaks end in more killings.<br/><br/>There are several highlights. The film&#39;s brisk pace engages and holds you. It is difficult to ascertain who actually perpetrated the murder, although it is much easier to guess how the &quot;locked room mystery,&quot; itself, occurred. Then there is Foster and Jenks&#39; camaraderie. They made a good team, playing well off each other. Lastly, mustachioed Clarence Wilson, a short, weaselly looking man, absolutely embodies everyone&#39;s worst lawyer stereotype.<br/><br/>However, there are also two major weak points. Several performances, including those of Foster and Jenks, should have been toned down. (In the second film, they were.) Foster needed less oafishness and more subtlety and Jenks, whose face was very mobile, needed fewer over-the-top reaction shots. Finally, Barbara Pepper, with a very bad Mae West imitation, gave a terrible performance. Indeed, I found the film&#39;s biggest mysteries were how she got the part and why all three leads were irresistibly attracted to her. In real life, most men would have fled.<br/><br/>*As an interesting aside, 15 years later, the Universal logo theme music for these films was reused as the TV theme for George Reeves&#39; Superman series.
The Westland Case (1937) <br/><br/>** (out of 4) <br/><br/>Robert Westland is in prison and set to die in a matter of days when private detective Bill Crane (Preston Foster) decides to take his case. Westland&#39;s wife was found murdered inside her apartment with all the doors and windows locked. There were only two keys with one on the inside and the other with her husband.<br/><br/>THE WESTLAND CASE was the first of eight Crime Club films that would be produced at Universal in a very quick period. This was the first in the series that I&#39;ve watched and I must admit that I was really letdown by it, although I&#39;ve read that it&#39;s one of the weakest in the series. I think the biggest problem is the fact that the screenplay really isn&#39;t all that memorable and in fact I&#39;d argue that it really isn&#39;t any better than some of the detective films from the poverty row companies.<br/><br/>I think the biggest problem is in fact the screenplay, which doesn&#39;t give us an interesting case and it certainly doesn&#39;t give us any interesting characters. The Crane character really isn&#39;t any different than a dozen other detectives out there during this era and he certainly doesn&#39;t put himself up there with the best known. Even worse are the supporting members who don&#39;t add much of anything. Throw in some rather weak humor and you&#39;ve got all the elements for a rather bland film.

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