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The director of "The Bat" and "The Bat Whispers(a sound version)" returns to production with 1932's "Corsair". Flamboyant Roland West's "Corsair" stars his favorite Chester Morris as a failed stockbroker who roams the high seas robbing bootleg liquor from other bootleggers, including his former boss(and father of his girl friend). Morris huffs and puffs(he's a former football star) as best he can, with all the 1930's bravura he can muster. The location photography at sea is good, but the story drags in the middle. The pretty blond is played by West's true-life lover, Thelma Todd, who just a few years later would be found mysteriously murdered(or not) in a car in front of their Malibu Beach restaurant on Pacific Coast Highway. Director Roland West was later charged with murder, but was eventually acquitted. The scandal would ruin his career, and no more films would follow. One of Hollywood's most inovative talents would see an early end to his success. Warch "Corsair" for a number of brilliant lighting and photographic effects. On his deathbed, actor Chester Morris("Boston Blackie") whispered that West had told him that he had actually killed Thelma Todd.