Shortly after GRAND CENTRAL MURDER Folsey would move into color cinematography of "A" films such as MEET ME IN ST. Folsey had worked shooting films since the silents and in this period was mostly filming MGM's "B" movies and black and white films such as the musical SEVEN SWEETHEARTS ( reviewed here in January). I looked it up and discovered the movie was filmed by George Folsey. My husband and I admired the film's photography, which included interesting upward-looking angles and background characters going in and out of focus. Several of Simon's films have been reviewed here previously, including SPRING MADNESS, FOUR GIRLS IN WHITE, THESE GLAMOUR GIRLS, and DANCING CO-ED. GRAND CENTRAL MURDER runs 73 minutes and was directed by one of MGM's best "B" directors, S. Virginia Grey had a long romance with Clark Gable in the '40s and was said to be heartbroken when he married another woman. Moore had a long career in bit parts dating back to the silent era. The police stenographer is played by an actor named Roger Moore this Roger Moore was not the eventual 007, but it's interesting to note that he was the older brother of actor Robert Young. Hinds, Cecilia Parker, Patricia Dane, Millard Mitchell, and Frank Ferguson.
The film has a superb supporting cast of pros including Connie Gilchrist, Samuel S. Abrams in two of the THIN MAN films) is the soda-addicted police inspector trying to crack the case. Virginia Grey plays Rocky's wife and assistant, Sue, and Sam Levene (Lt. Van Heflin plays Rocky Custer, a private investigator who inadvertently is also a suspect in the murder of an actress at Grand Central Station. GRAND CENTRAL MURDER is an MGM "B" movie which is a fast-paced whodunit with an excellent cast and polished cinematography.
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