Zeus

Thunder In The Night (1935)

Stars:

Edmund Lowe, Karen Morley, Paul Cavanagh

The story takes place in the Budapest of those years. The lives of a noble couple, Count Alvinczy and his wife Madalaine, will be examined because the countess ex-husband, a scoundrel, Paul Szegedy, who faked his own life in order to escape prison, has returned to the city with an assumed name to make her life miserable. Szegedy has come back to Budapest working in a vaudeville act involving pistols with a female assistant. Paul wants to blackmail Madalaine in a scheme he thinks will give him a lot of money.

Captain Torok of the Budapest police department, a friend of the Alvinczys, is called to investigate the death of Szegedy in his room at the Oriental Hotel. The suspects include the Alvinczys and a neighbor who is some kind of a medium. Torok proves to be a good detective as he examines the evidence that appeared stacked against innocent people.