The Perfume of the Lady in Black takes up exactly where The Mystery of the Yellow Room leaves off, and involves the same characters in a unique extension of the story.
On a 1981 revival of the film, the French film magazine Cinématographe carried this note:
“In the ex of Huguette ex-Duflos' name - alias Mlle. Stengerson - lies a heavy past of which Rouletabille is the offspring. Lacking the speed of the detective story, a genre as yet undeveloped, the movie is a static divertimento endowed with the elegance customary of L'Herbier, who looks for a rhythm, places a set, tries out a few sound gimmicks. Improbable comedians - if one excepts the funny Léon Belières, typical Thirties character who should be rediscovered - animate this slow nocturnal pantomime which finds its music in the pass-word imagined by Gaston Leroux: ‘The vicarage has lost nothing of its charm, neither has the garden.'” --Translated for PFA by Paul Fonteyn

Please Note: Program repeated Tuesday, June 15.