This is a passable quota quickie made by Gaumont British.The film is set in a Parisian nightclub.The set is a delight of art deco with flashing light bulbs.Williams is an artist who lives in a flat above the club.He owes money to the club owner.The club owner is involved in blackmail.So not surprisingly he is murdered and his body is found by Williams hidden in his flat.As is usual in such films the main character always does the most stupid of things.in this case he hides the body in the attic above.Horace Hodges plays his father who comes visiting.he is an amateur detective.he is sitting in the flat when blood from the body starts dripping through the ceiling.So then we have the denouement with all the suspects present and Hodges using his deductive powers to work out the guilty party.Whilst the story is fairly routine the film is a cut above the usual quota quickie.The camera actually moves from time to time and the editing is more than just pasting together strips of film.
Review of A Night in Montmartre
