Radioland Murders (1994, United States)
Running time: 110 minutes
Language: English
It’s the opening night for new radio broadcasting network WBN that will transmit live show from coast to coast of United States. It is the golden era of radio and everything will be played live in front of the audience that gathered in the theater. The atmosphere is tense, with sponsors interfering in the scripts, scriptwriters starting a strike and personal animosities between the staff members. But if that is not enough someone is killing people involved in the production and one of the writers, Roger Henderson, becomes a prime suspect. Police tries to conduct the investigation while the show goes on, which puts even more pressure on Roger. He has to solve the mystery, otherwise he will end up in jail, but also has to stop Penny, producer on the show, not to divorce him.
The mixture of two old-fashioned kinds of entertainment: old time radio shows and whodunit mystery. Radioland Murders had excellent script, perfectly recreated the atmosphere of old radio shows and the chaos of broadcasting live. Developed from idea of George Lucas, with cast filled with well-known actors and clever script it is a good comedy and pretty damn good mystery movies. The slapstick elements in the film fitted well with the era, in which story takes place, although for modern audience it might have been a slight problem. Nevertheless Mel Smith, British comedian, did excellent job directing this movie.
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Our rating |
8 / 10 |
Movie value |
10 / 10 |
Realism factor |
3 / 5 |
Adventure factor |
4 / 5 |
Story complexity |
3 / 5 |
90 |
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as General Walt Whalen | |
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as Rick Rochester | |
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as Max Applewhite | |
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as Herman Katzenback | |
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as Dexter Morris | |
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