Mystery in Swing
In and around some great blues, swing and jazz music, a very unpopular band-leader. Prince Ellis, is killed in a Harlem nightclub, and, in and around some more great music, a detective finds the lists of suspects is very long, as ...
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"Mystery in Swing (1940) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Entertaining murder-mystery about a popular band leader who has plenty of enemies out there. One day he is killed and the main suspect is the father of a woman he was trying to date. Before long various other red herrings show up as it seems no one liked the man. MYSTERY IN SWING is a pretty entertaining race picture that manages to put itself right up there with the other "B" mysteries that were being pumped out by Hollywood at the time. Quite often these race movies didn't look very good technically because of the low-budgets but t..."
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In production the last week of January 1940, this film received its earliest documented telecast in New York City Friday 10 May 1940 on pioneer, and still experimental W2XBS, which would not receive its full time commercial status until 29 June 1941 when it was officially launched as WNBT (Channel 1).
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In and around some great blues, swing and jazz music, a very unpopular band-leader. Prince Ellis, is killed in a Harlem nightclub, and, in and around some more great music, a detective finds the lists of suspects is very long, as ...