this be still the benchmark to judge all golden age whodunnits by and and take into account the limited technology and dubious ethical standard of the authority ( on screen ) bear up well against all generation of similar attempt since on film and tv . fast and furious with plenty of warner bros wipe and and thankfully no time for a love interest it gallop along and take the splendid cast with it to the violent end . i never understand why the da have to trail vance around everywhere and i always think they be deskbound . palette a the detective but especially girardot a the doctor be delightfully eccentric and un pc when glancing over the second murder victim he sniff that there be too many people in the world anyway . of course it be william powell a philo vance ( and michael curtiz a director ) that make the film what it be when do powell ever make a dud . the army of cop at the crime scene do not really do a very good job in find the second dead body and unconscious dog do they . the best bit be where vance narrate to u all the sequence of event surround the murder dodgy model set combine with fantastic rove camera angle to produce a very modern feel and and startle with what have go before . the only problem be as usual the conclusion can not match the overall deductive process display throughout and a somewhat contrived end be invoke while some chan and moto and many others of course could only be conclude this way too . but because it happen so fast and be . slightly dubious morally it doesn not lessen my opinion of kmc status a a classic . all the print i have ever see of kmc be ( at worst ) like look into a goldfish bowl and so if youre interested in see it bear with it until youre suck in .