The League of Frightened Men (1937 film)

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The League of Frightened Men
Directed by	Alfred E. Green
Written by	Rex Stout (story) Edward Chodorov
Starring	Walter Connolly Lionel Stander
Release date(s)	May 25, 1937
Running time	71 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Preceded by	Meet Nero Wolfe
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The League of Frightened Men is a 1937 mystery film based on the second Nero Wolfe novel by Rex Stout. Directed by Alfred E. Green, the Columbia Pictures film stars Walter Connolly as Nero Wolfe, a role played by Edward Arnold in the previous year's Meet Nero Wolfe. The role of Wolfe's assistant Archie Goodwin was reprised by Lionel Stander.

Contents 1 Cast 2 Reception 3 External links 4 References

[edit] Cast

• Walter Connolly as Nero Wolfe
• Lionel Stander as Archie Goodwin
• Eduardo Ciannelli as Paul Chapin
• Irene Hervey as Evelyn Hibbard
• Victor Kilian as Pitney Scott
• Nana Bryant as Agnes Burton
• Joseph Allen (Allen Brook) as Mark Chapin
• Walter Kingsford as Ferdinand Bowen
• Leonard Mudie as Professor Hibbard
• Kenneth Hunter as Dr. Burton
• Charles Irwin as Augustus Farrell
• Rafaela Ottiano as Dora Chapin
• Edward McNamara as Inspector Cramer
• Jameson Thomas as Michael Ayers
• Ian Wolfe as Nicholas Cabot
• Jonathan Hale as Alexander Drummond
• Herbert Ashley as Fritz
• James Flavin as Joe

[edit] Reception

• The New York Times, July 2, 1937 — The League of Frightened Men is a new Nero Wolfe episode for the screen, and it finds Walter Connolly, the incumbent Nero, prissily substituting chocolate for the more familiar Wolfe diet of beer. This is rather hard on Lionel (Archie) Stander, because chocolate makes him boip, whereas the beer used to be right to his taste... It should be reported that The League of Frightened Men is a well-knit mystery, and well played out.

• Jon Tuska, The Detective in Hollywood — Unhappily, Lionel Stander's Archie in The League of Frightened Men is far too much of a bungler. The plot follows the novel, which ran initially in The Saturday Evening Post. A group of ten men is threatened by one of their number, and murders begin. Eduardo Ciannelli is the logical suspect, since he was crippled in a hazing while the men were all in college. ... The film was in no way the equal of its predecessor.^[1]

[edit] External links

• The League of Frightened Men at the Internet Movie Database

[edit] References