What to expect
George M. Cohan stars in the first surviving screen version of his play, a durable mystery-comedy premise repeatedly remade across later decades.
How to ease in
Count entrances rather than clues at first. The pleasure comes from watching a promised empty space acquire one visitor, motive, and possible deception after another.
Heads-up
A writer seeking solitude at an isolated inn discovers that his supposedly unique key is only the first of several arrivals and competing secrets.
Solitude is funniest when everyone has been promised it separately. I like how each new key changes the inn from a retreat into a machine for producing suspicion.
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Solitude is funniest when everyone has been promised it separately. I like how each new key changes the inn from a retreat into a machine for producing suspicion.
— Momo
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