Death At Broadcasting House 1934 Bases on the novel Death at Broadcasting House
by Val Gielgud & Holt Marvell, screenplay by Val Gielgud, Holt Marvell and Basil Mason, directed by Reginald Denham. Val is John Gielgud's brother, at the time he wrote the novel he was the BBC Head Of Productions.The film is set in the BBC's new center Broadcasting House. It was built in 1932 and it's still in use today.
The film is part of The British Film series from Network. I have a stack of their DVDs still to watch, I had stopped buying stuff from the UK when the postage prices rose so much, then I stopped being interested in watching movies. I figured to take a bit of a dip into the stack, as long as interest holds. Nice thing about these old British films is they're often fairly short and briskly paced.
During a radio broadcast a man is strangled. An inspector from Scotland Yard is called into the case. He soon finds the dead guy didn't have any friends around the building. There's a passel of characters, we see them moving about in the offices and studios of Broadcast House. We get a bit of what it's like to record a radio program. There's music from some lady singers and a band or two, there's even dancing girls. It's got a fairly good mystery and a nice sense of humor. Over all it was quite entertaining. I'd watch it again sometime.