The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939)
A BOMBARDMENT OF LAUGHS!
80 min
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to duty. Maxine, in desperation, decides to take action and bring Kenny to the altar. Who will win, Maxine's curves or the glorious fight against crime?
- Release date
- November 22, 1939
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Melvyn Douglas as Police Lieutenant Kenny Williams
- Joan Blondell as Maxine Carroll
- Clarence Kolb as Police Captain McGovern
- Ruth Donnelly as Effie Perkins
- Edward Brophy as Buck Moseby
- Donald MacBride as Police Lieutenant Bixler
- Don Beddoe as Police Detective Deever
- Jonathan Hale as Mayor
- John Wray as Stanley
- E. Alyn Warren as Clerk
Crew
- Alexander Hall · Director
- Dwight Taylor · Writer
- Sy Bartlett · Writer
- Richard Maibaum · Writer
- Everett Riskin · Producer
- Arthur L. Todd · Cinematographer
- Viola Lawrence · Editor