Strange Affair (1944) Film Review - Cinecon 45 Screening

POSSIBLE SPOILER AHEAD - - B comedy/murder-mystery in which an amateur crime solving husband and wife team, played by Allyn Joslyn and Evelyn Keyes, attend a banquet where a man at their table is suddenly found murdered sitting up in his chair. How did it happen? Our duo is on the case and a number of suspects come to light, including a mystery woman who sat at their table and turns out to secretly be the murdered man's wife! A sort of Thin Man film, without the cocktails. The thing that caught my attention more than anything else in this film was the wife's obsession with hats, so there's plenty of neat forties hats to look at - one piece of comedy in this film revolves around one of her hat's with a very long feather that keeps hitting men in the face (one man actually snips the end of it off). I actually have a collection of vintage hats and I have one from the late 40s/early 50s that has a long feather like that! Shemp Howard has a small, but funny part as a man who drives a laundry truck and keeps miscounting the towels while Allyn Joslyn is getting honey-do's from his wife via a Dictaphone. Cute film. Rating - 7/10 stars