Who Killed Aunt Maggie?

7
1940 1 hr 10 min Crime , Mystery

When a much-despised matriarch is murdered, or apparently murdered, all of her relatives and "friends" fall under suspicion. Sheriff Gregory is the official investigator, but most of the clue gathering is done by amateur sleuths Kirk Pierce and Sally Ambler.

  • Cast:
    John Hubbard , Wendy Barrie , Edgar Kennedy , Elizabeth Patterson , Onslow Stevens , Joyce Compton , Walter Abel

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Reviews

Pluskylang
1940/11/01

Great Film overall

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Borserie
1940/11/02

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

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Fairaher
1940/11/03

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

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Roman Sampson
1940/11/04

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

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mark.waltz
1940/11/05

A gloomy old mansion on a stormy night, the murders of the patriarch and matriarch of an old Atlanta money family, a dumb detective, strangers peaking inside windows, fights on darkened stairs and scaredy cat black servants. About as believable as an episode of "Scooby Doo", yet well cast with dependable character players. It also laughs at the often repeated plot by having radio show writer Wendy Barrie criticized by the wisecracking John Hubbard for writing such dribble. Edgar Kennedy as the slow burning idiot investigator, Elizabeth Patterson as the matriarch who gathers the clan together, Mona Barrie as a bitchy member of the family and Willie Best as the nervous valet are among the clichéd characters who pop in and out of the messy screenplay. Scattered laughs here and there, but not much else.

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gridoon2018
1940/11/06

No, no, I'm kidding. The butler didn't do it, in fact there is no butler in this movie - in his place there is a stereotypically easily-scared-out-of-his-mind black errand man (he didn't do it, either). You could argue that everything about "Who Killed Aunt Maggie?", from the dark and stormy night and the old house with possible but still undiscovered secret rooms to the disappearance of the dead bodies and the family of suspects, is stereotypical, but at least it's done in a rather self-aware way. The movie doesn't seem to aim any higher than just being a fast-moving, instantly forgettable mystery programmer, and at that it succeeds. One particularly funny scene has a character trying to find the secret room behind a bookcase - only to have the entire bookcase fall on him! ** out of 4.

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Jaycee Noble
1940/11/07

Well I would have to give it a 10 because it frightened the life out of me when I saw it shortly after it came out at the Vogue Cinema, Stoke Newington, London and I had asked someone I didn't know to take me into the cinema because it was an 'A' (Adults only) film. Things were a lot safer in those days because all the men were in the services. It scared me so much I had to change seats and sit next to a couple of women for comfort but then I was only 9 at the time - it was wartime in London and were going through the bombing so my nerves were probably on edge and perhaps I would only rate it one today if I saw it again. But at 80 - what do I know? I'm no critic. Anyway perhaps children today, if they saw it, might see the film as being a bit spooky today.

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1940/11/08

I'm a fan of "Old House" movies and, when i heard about THIS one, i tried to get it for a long time.When i finally DID, i was very disappointed. It's easy to spot the murderer, but that's not what makes it so disappointing.This film has a top-notch cast - Eliz Paterson, Willie Best, Joyce Compton, Milton Parsons, Wendie Barrie, etc -- ALL veteran "Old House" actors. AND, a screenplay by the fantastic Stuart Palmer!But, the movie drags on & on, with the usual "cut phone wires", "cars put out of commission", etc.....it would've benefited from some real SCARES.It drags along, to an ending that doesn't make much sense. Don't waste your time on THIS one, unless you're a die-hard fan!

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