The League of Frightened Men (1937 film)
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.
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- 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]
References
- ^ Tuska, Jon, The Detective in Hollywood, 1978, Doubleday and Company ISBN 0385120931 page 59
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