Moving into more mystery and suspense, we take a look at another adaptation of an Edgar Allan Poe tale. Inspired by an unsolved murder that plagued New York City in 1838, the mystery brought Poe's detective Dupin back for another round.
Paris, 1889. The entire city is gripped in fascination as famed singer Marie Roget has been missing for over a week. Fear and rumor run rampant. Close friend of Marie, Henri Beauvis (John Litel); who's also the Minister of Navel Affairs, puts the screws to the Police Prefect Gobelin (Lloyd Corrigan) to solve the case as fast as possible. Stumped, Gobelin puts the call to his old friend Dr. Paul Dupin (Patric Knowles), who solved that grisly matter in the Rue Morgue some time ago.
Dupin agrees, but he's not on the case long when a horribly mutilated corpse is pulled from the Seine. The body matches Ms. Roget, but is it her?
The head of the Roget family (Maria Ouspenskaya) thinks so, so she hires Dupin to protect Marie's stepsister Camille (Nell O'Day), much to the protest of her fiancé Marcel (Edward Norris), who seems to be rather suspicious. Is he a killer? Is it the older Roget's pet cheetah?
Honestly, the mystery is a bit muddled and seems more concerned with throwing twists than solving anything. The visuals more than make up for those shortcomings, with rain slicked cobblestones and cloaked figures running across the rooftops.
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