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The Mystery of Mr X (1934)

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The Mystery of Mr X (1934)

The Mystery of Mr X (1934)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 4400 kbps | 2.8Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 256 Kbps
01:23:00 | USA | Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance

A sophisticated jewel thief tries to prove himself innocent of a string of cop murders.

Directors: Edgar Selwyn, Richard Boleslawski
Cast: Robert Montgomery, Elizabeth Allan, Lewis Stone, Ralph Forbes, Henry Stephenson, Forrester Harvey, Ivan F. Simpson, Leonard Mudie, Alec B. Francis, Charles Irwin, Robert Adair, Norman Ainsley, Barlowe Borland, Alfred Cross, Captain Francis, Victor Gammon, Douglas Gordon, Carl Harbord, Olaf Hytten, Colin Kenny, Claude King, Richard Lancaster, Raymond Lawrence, Clive Morgan, Pat Moriarity, Henry Mowbray, John Power, Harrington Reynolds, Milton Royce, C. Montague Shaw

The Mystery of Mr X (1934)

The Mystery of Mr X (1934)


SYNOPSIS:
After four constables are stabbed to death in four different sections of London by a serial killer who calls himself "Mr. X," Sir Herbert Frensham, the beleagured police commissioner, confers with Inspector Connor about how to stop the killings. With no true leads, however, the police fail to prevent a fifth murder, which occurs at the same time and near the same place as the robbery of the valuable Drayton diamond. Aware that the police believe that Mr. X has the diamond, the true thieves, Nick Revel and his cohorts–taxi driver Joseph Horatio Palmer and insurance clerk Hutchinson–decide to wait until Mr. X is apprehended before collecting a 10,000 pound insurance reward on the gem. Soon after, a sixth murder occurs, and Sir Christopher Marche, the fiance of the commissioner's daughter Jane, is arrested because he had drunkenly assaulted the constable just before he was slain. Anxious to speed up Mr. X's capture, Nick and Palmer conspire to testify on Marche's behalf and state in court that, while driving by in Palmer's cab, they saw Marche leave the scene before the murder was committed. Nick then ingratiates himself with Jane and connives to have dinner with her father in order to suggest a way of catching the killer. Although Sir Herbert is impressed by Nick's idea of trapping Mr. X by announcing in the newspapers that his last victim survived the attack and can identify his attacker, Connor is suspicious of the thief and orders a background check on him. While Nick romances Jane away from Marche, Connor searches Nick's flat and tries to catch him with the jewel by having an undercover policeman accuse him of theft. Before he is taken to police headquarters, however, the wiley Nick passes the diamond to Palmer, who in turn gives the jewel to Hutchinson. In a pub, a nervous Hutchinson returns the jewel by dropping it in Nick's beer, which Nick then swallows under the nose of an undercover policeman. Although Nick eludes the police by driving off with an unsuspecting Jane, Connor sends the already jealous Marche to Nick's flat. Outraged by Jane's presence in Nick's flat, Marche breaks their engagement, and Nick, realizing that he loves Jane, decides to end his life of crime and return the diamond. After Nick mails the jewel with a typed note from "Mr. X," Connor picks up Hutchinson and begins to interrogate him. As Hutchinson nears the point of confession, Nick deduces that Mr. X, who has announced his next murder for that night, has been using an "x" pattern to determine his murder locations. Confident he knows where Mr. X will strike next, Nick disguises himself as a constable, sneaks out of his police-guarded flat and rushes across town. After a fierce fight, Nick fatally wounds Mr. X, who then confesses to the police before dying that he committed the murders as revenge for a previous conviction. Hailed as a hero, the reformed Nick poses for reporters' photographs with the now-vindicated commissioner and embraces a loving Jane

IMDb

There have been a spate of London police murders, the victims always killed by a long knife (which the police know is a sword cane), the murders always taking place in a deserted but successively different part of town, and the police always being notified by the murderer that he will strike beforehand. By his signed notes, the murderer has dubbed himself as X. The police have their first real lead when the latest murder occurs outside the home where the Drayton Diamond was stolen on the same night. The diamond thief is Nick Revel, a suave, confident career thief, and his two accomplices, an insurance clerk named 'Hutch' Hutchinson, and a taxi driver named Joe Palmer. Nick, however, is not Mr. X, but he and his accomplices know they can't pawn the diamond or return the diamond for its insurance money now until Mr. X is caught. When a well known and respected man named Sir Christopher Marche is arrested for the murders on circumstantial evidence, Nick knows the police have the wrong man. Nick, who has an idea on how the police can find Mr. X, decides the best thing he can do is to make a up a story to clear Sir Christopher while suggesting his plan to the police. In this process, both Sir Christopher and the lead investigator, Superintendent Connor, don't quite trust Nick, the latter who suspects he is the diamond thief. Nick realizes that the police are onto him, which worries both Hutch and Joe more than it worries the confident Nick. But the one person who does trust Nick is Jane Frensham, Sir Christopher's fiance and Police Commissioner Sir Herbert Frensham's daughter. Sir Herbert himself has been under great criticism by the public for failing to stop the murders. In the process of Nick's assistance, Nick and Jane have fallen in love with each other. To protect himself under the circumstances and protect Jane's good name, Nick feels his only solution is to capture Mr. X himself.
~ Huggo

The Mystery of Mr X (1934)

The Mystery of Mr X (1934)

The Mystery of Mr X (1934)

The Mystery of Mr X (1934)