Movie Review: Shadows on the Stairs (1941)
Synopsis: Joseph Reynolds secretly owns the boarding house he rents a room from while conducting mysterious business with his partner, Ram Singh, and carrying out an affair both with the mistress of the house and the maid. When he is found brutally stabbed in his room, all the house's tenants become murder suspects. Who's in it? The movie stars Frieda Inescort , Paul Cavanagh , Heather Angel, Bruce Lester and Miles Mander. Review: I came across Shadows on the Stairs a couple days ago and, mostly because it was being compared to Sherlock Holmes, I decided to take the time to watch it. I wasn't able to get through the whole movie in one sitting, but I did finally manage to watch the rest of it last night. Unfortunately, it just wasn't as good as I was hoping it would be. To be fair, the film does have a decent start to it. It quickly, but effectively, introduces the viewer to the victim (Cavanagh) and all the people who would later be suspects in his murder. The myster...