Death at a Broadcast (1934)

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Ian Hunter

Detective Inspector Gregory

Austin Trevor

Leopold Dryden

Lilian Oldland

Joan Dryden
(as Mary Newland)

Henry Kendall

Rodney Fleming

Val Gielgud

Julian Caird

Peter Haddon

Guy Bannister

Betty Ann Davies

Poppy Levine
(as Betty Davies)

Jack Hawkins

Herbert Evans

Donald Wolfit

Sydney Parsons

Robert Rendel

Sir Herbert Farquharson

Gordon McLeod

Chief Commissioner

Hannen Swaffer

Hannen Swaffer - Radio Personality

Vernon Bartlett

Vernon Bartlett - News Broadcaster

Eric Dunstan

Eric Dunstan - Radio Personality

Gillie Potter

Gillie Potter - Radio Personality

Elisabeth Welch

Elisabeth Welch - Singer

Eve Becke

Eve Becke - Singer

Gershom Parkington

Gershom Parkington - Musician
(as Gershom Parkington Quintette)

Director
- Reginald Denham
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Trivia
This film received its earliest documented USA telecasts in Los Angeles Sunday 16 October 1949 on KFI (Channel 9) and in New York City Saturday 11 February 1950 on WPIX (Channel 11).

Quotes
Rodney Fleming: [to the lift-man] I'm looking for Variety.
lift-man: That's eight floors down.
Rodney Fleming: But I've just come eight floors up!
lift-man: Then it'll be sixteen floors down.

Connections
Referenced in Those British Faces: A Tribute to Jack Hawkins 1910-1973 (1993)

Soundtracks
Lazy Lady
(uncredited)
Written by Ord Hamilton
Sung by Elisabeth Welch

Passable Whodunnit - Death at a Broadcast

Although terribly dated and about a form of media that is passe in modern times, Death of a Broadcast is still an entertaining whodunnit. The death of one of the radio actors during a live broadcast is the basis for the film.

The actor is strangled during a scene in which he is supposed to be strangled in the play. The coincidence of events is very convenient for the killer. A rather novel murder mystery then unfolds. Worth viewing despite the dated content.