Directed by:
Roy Del RuthScreenplay:
Robert Presnell Sr.Cinematography:
Barney McGillCast:
Bette Davis, Lewis Stone, Pat O'Brien, Glenda Farrell, Allen Jenkins, Ruth Donnelly, Hugh Herbert, Alan Dinehart, Marjorie Gateson, Tad Alexander, Noel Francis (more)Plots(1)
Demoted to working in the "kindergarten" of the police department, tough cop Butch Saunders (Pat O'Brien) goes all soft at the center when a sweet blonde (Bette Davis) walks into the Bureau of Missing Persons looking for her missing husband. When it turns out her husband is both a murder victim and a bachelor - and that the blonde is suspect #1, Butch comes up with a scheme to crack the case. This nifty B picture moves with the speed of a follow-that-cab! taxi as it careens from drama to mystery to comedy (How to track carrier pigeons carrying ransom money? Wing after the birds in a plane!). (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Bette Davis
USA
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Lewis Stone
USA
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Pat O'Brien
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Glenda Farrell
USA
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Allen Jenkins
USA
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Ruth Donnelly
USA
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Hugh Herbert
USA
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Alan Dinehart
USA
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Marjorie Gateson
USA
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Tad Alexander
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Noel Francis
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Adrian Morris
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Henry Kolker
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George Chandler
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Frank Darien
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Jean Muir
USA
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Charles Sellon
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Harry C. Bradley
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Sol Gorss
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Edward Pawley
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