The Case Of The Lucky Legs (1935)

A young lady (Patricia Ellis) wins a "lucky legs" beauty contest that features a $1,000 prize. However, the promoter Craig Reynolds) skips town taking the prize money with him. When he turns up stabbed to death, she becomes the prime suspect. Based on the novel by Erle Stanley Gardner and directed by Archie Mayo (THE PETRIFIED FOREST). A fast moving screwball comedy hiding under the guise of a murder mystery. This movie zips by so fast that you don't have time to think about the whodunit aspects which is just as well since by process of elimination, it's pretty obvious. Each of the six Perry Mason movies that Warners did in the 1930s featured a different Della Street and here, Genevieve Tobin as a sassy wise cracking Della is the best of the lot. Good fun! With Allen Jenkins, Lyle Talbot, Peggy Shannon, Barton MacLaine, Porter Hall and Mary Treen.