Homicide detective Bill Ryder reluctantly teams up with wise-cracking news-hound Peter Kennedy to solve a pair of murders.Homicide detective Bill Ryder reluctantly teams up with wise-cracking news-hound Peter Kennedy to solve a pair of murders.Homicide detective Bill Ryder reluctantly teams up with wise-cracking news-hound Peter Kennedy to solve a pair of murders.
Theodore von Eltz
- George Kilpatrick
- (as Theodore Von Eltz)
George Campeau
- Reporter
- (uncredited)
Jimmy Conlin
- Hotel Desk Clerk
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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- TriviaThe opening building shot (model) is the frequently used one that goes as far back as Female (1933) with Ruth Chatterton, though it likely predates even that film.
- GoofsWhen Lieutenant Ryder goes to Phil Richards apartment and Phil introduces him to his fiance; she is holding a cigarette and pointing it up with the palm out. But on the next cut; she now has the cigarette pointing toward the Lieutenant. Then on the following cuts after that she goes back and forth between the two holding positions.
- Crazy creditsIn the opening credits, the leads are optically billed not by their names or even their characters' names, but by their characters' professions (e.g., "Newspaperman," "Night Club Owner"), though the actors are listed in the prior title cards.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Doldrum: A Shot in the Dark (1954)
- SoundtracksI'm Just Wild About Harry
(1921)
Written by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake
Sung by Nan Wynn with revised lyrics (lyricist unknown) at the nightclub
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the Lundigan one.
The Bill Lundigan one. Peter Sellers made another (unrelated) one in 1964. When Richards (Cortez) sells the Royal Club to an out of towner, the murders start. The locals team up to figure out who dunnit. Singer Dixie (Nan Wynn) and Kennedy the reporter (Lundigan) offer to help Lt. Ryder (Regis Toomey) any way they can. This film is just filled with the usual ingredients in an old who-dunnit; competing for the girl, cracking stupid jokes while trying to solve the murder. In this one, the police lieutenant never seems to do any actual police work... he's always hanging around in nightclubs and bars, with his hands at his side. And why is Lundigan always hiding under desks and behind pillars? Is he five years old?? When he sits in a chair, he hangs one leg over the arm of the chair. Was the director trying to make him look like a teenager? This was released JUST before the japanese bombed pearl harbor... it would be all war films in just a couple months. And this one also has a strange ending. It's a short B film from Warner Brothers, so I guess the expectations were already pretty low. Directed by Bill McGann. Was a special effects guy on some real big films before turning director. Key Largo, Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
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- Apr 16, 2021
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- Runtime57 minutes
- Color
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- 1.37 : 1
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