i just saw this film for the tenth time . i enjoy brian ahern a the scatter brain murder mystery book writer who and with be wife and loretta young and move into a basement apartment of an apartment building where the tenant all live there because they be be blackmail . the whole cast have solid character actor you have see in so many other film . it be nice to see lee patrick a a café owner with out her high pitched voice that she later become know for . a dead man be find in their back yard and that they have see while eat dinner the night before and the two start their own investigation a to who the man be and why be everyone be blackmail . the story continue to move so easy through it 91 minute that i be sorry to see it end .