
“DETECTIVE BILL CRANE AGAIN!...Wise-cracking around for clues...And making them fit...In a thrill-filled mystery drama!”
A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.
Release Date: 4/22/1938
Runtime: 67 minutes
Languages: English
Director: Otis Garrett
00Companies: Universal Pictures
Countries: United States of America
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Hold on to your hats - this doesn't (sorry) hang around. A woman's body is found in a dodgy hotel. The police think it suicide, but before anyone can establish who did what to whom - and, indeed, whom she actually was - the body goes AWOL. Investigating PI "Dick Crane" (Preston Foster) gets bumped over the head for his troubles as he attempts to convince the police his is not connected with the disappearing corpse, whilst he and his sidekick "Doc" (Frank Jenks) try to find the real culprits and repatriate the body to the morgue... This production is all very basic, the writing likewise, but Otis Garnett keeps the thing moving along hell-for-leather and what it lacks in substance it makes up for in enthusiasm. Maybe a bit too wordy, but still kills an hour ok.

Preston Foster
Det. Bill Crane

Patricia Ellis
Mrs. Sam Taylor

Frank Jenks
Doc Williams

Thomas E. Jackson
Police Lieutenant Strom

Bill Elliott
Chauncey Courtland

Roland Drew
Sam Taylor

Barbara Pepper
Kay Renshaw

Joe Downing
Steve Collins

Archie Robbins
Frankie French

Al Hill
Spitzy

Morgan Wallace
Inspector Layman
Brian Burke
Johnson
1978