not so much a picturisation of ellery queen 1934 the chinese orange mystery and this flick be a take on paramount 1933 alice in wonderland and with miss henry snugly and smugly repeat her part a the innocent abroad and while eddie quillan make impotent if cheeky woo a the bungling knight . ala and although the knight role be little more than a cameo in alice and the writer here have mercilessly expand the part and even though it mean tread on the line of more capable player like break your heart rita la roy ( a most engaging and super attractively regal young duchess ) and kay hughes please cheshire cat who and a we might expect and disappear from the action and ala and for long spell . we be leave too often with wade boteler far too bellicose mad hatter and and be also force to suffer far too much tiresome comic relief from tweedledum franklin pangborn and although admittedly william newell occasional input a tweedledee be just about right . bad still and ralph staub ( who squeeze maybe a dozen feature assignment in between his excruciate screen snapshots series ) have handle tmm in a mercilessly heavy hand and thoroughly routine style that totally smother every latent spark of wit in a screenplay that be none too promise to begin with . miserable production value do not help either . even the sound recording be way below par in the dvd i view recently . it be so muffled and i miss half the dialogue . but after all and maybe that be an asset .