'The Pointing Finger' is based on "the famous novel" by the modestly named 'Rita'. (Eliza Margaret Humphries to her friends) and probably is more coherent than this 1933 film version. At the end one was thinking, 'yes, but' and 'does that mean?' and 'what was that about?' and so forth. For example the Edensore family is haunted by a pointing abbot in a habit who frightens the male members of the family to death but at the end it transpires the habit is a real one so who has been wearing the habit in the past hauntings. The secret passed on from one heir to the next is the location of the habit so do the young heirs frighten the old ones to gain their inheritance? One of the characters says the above line about the other side of a tapestry but that indeed is where the habit is stored so does she know about it all or was that a chance remark? I'm thinking too much about this...
It is a slow moving film set mostly in one house with not much excitement despite the convoluted plot. The acting is very much of its time. Michael Hogan as the ambiguous Patrick Lafone (you know he's Irish because he says 'bejabers') is the most interesting character.
It is a slow moving film set mostly in one house with not much excitement despite the convoluted plot. The acting is very much of its time. Michael Hogan as the ambiguous Patrick Lafone (you know he's Irish because he says 'bejabers') is the most interesting character.