The Plot to Kill Roosevelt

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• 1946
• 1 hr 26 mins
• Drama

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The sensational title of this film should, quite obviously, have great drawing power with the mystery fans. The picture, however, does not manage to live up to the excitement the title evokes. The setting is Teheran in 1943 where Derek Farr, playing an English war correspondent, has stumbled on "The Plot to Kill Roosevelt." The atmosphere, crowd scenes, costumes and character types which are generally associated with the mysterious East are provided in plenty by William Freshman, the director, with Marta Labarr adding extra glamour as a Russian ballerina involved in the proceedings. The film has movement without action and builds up little suspense before the denouement. The scale of production is a trifle more elaborate than is usual in similar pictures. Manning Whiley gives a good account of himself as the suave ringleader of the plotters; the cast as a whole being generally adequate.