My Review of SUPERNATURAL (1933)

SUPERNATURAL

         Being a fan of both Carole Lombard and Randolph Scott, I requested a review copy of SUPERNATURAL (1933), a film that I’d certainly heard of, but had never seen.  The movie has just been released onto Blu-Ray by Kino Lorber.

         The good news is that the movie has been beautifully restored with a new 2K master.  The picture and sound are excellent.

         Lombard plays a rich heiress whose twin brother has recently been murdered.  Shortly after the funeral, she is approached by a crooked medium (Alan Dinehart), who claims he can communicate with the deceased “on the other side”. Interestingly, the medium’s former lady friend (Vivienne Osborne) has just been executed for murdering three men she’d also been involved with, and her spirit is not only “hanging around,” but at one point, she inhabits Lombard’s body.

         Randolph Scott plays Lombard’s fiancé in the film, which was directed by Victor Halperin.

         The bad news is that, although the movie is fast-paced, running a mere 64 minutes, the story is somewhat confusing, in that one is not quite sure which character did what to who.

         Thankfully, in subsequent years, both Lombard and Scott, who is 4^th billed, would appear in the kind of films (i.e. screwball comedies and Westerns) for which they are now fondly remembered.

Incidentally, the 1933 Long Beach earthquake hit while SUPERNATURAL was filming, causing the cast and crew to run from the studio set, shrieking in fright.