Cosmo Jones in the Crime Smasher (1943)
Radio's crack-brain criminologist stands headquarters on its head in his first raid on screen gangsters!
62 min
Cosmo Jones, a correspondence-school detective from a small town, comes to the big city to offer his services to the police. He happens by where a gangster is killed by an opposing gang. Socialite Phyllis Blake is running around with gang member Tom and the opposing gang plan on kidnapping her. Cosmo is with Sergeant Flanagan when the attempt is made in front of a night club, where a bystander is seriously wounded in the gun-battle. Police Chief Murphy blames Flanagan for the shooting and demotes him. Cosmo, with the aid of a porter, Eustace and Flanagan's fiancée, Susan, tries to find the killer. Phyllis is finally kidnapped and Cosmo decides the act was committed by one of the two gangs. He has her father place an ad in the newspaper that contact has been made with the kidnappers. Each gang thinks the other is pulling a double cross, and one gang wipes out the other.
- Date de sortie
- 29 janvier 1943
- Pays d'origine
- États-Unis
Distribution
- Frank Graham dans le rôle de Professor Cosmo Jones
- Edgar Kennedy dans le rôle de Police Chief Murphy
- Gale Storm dans le rôle de Susan Fleming
- Richard Cromwell dans le rôle de Police Sergeant Pat Flanagan
- Mantan Moreland dans le rôle de Eustace Smith
- Gwen Kenyon dans le rôle de Phyllis Blake
- Herbert Rawlinson dans le rôle de Mr. James J. Blake
- Tristram Coffin dans le rôle de Jake Pelotti
- Charles Jordan dans le rôle de Biff Garr
- Vince Barnett dans le rôle de Henchman 'Gimp'
Équipe technique
- James Tinling · Réalisateur
- Michael L. Simmons · Scénariste
- Walter Gering · Scénariste
- Frank Graham · Scénariste
- Lindsley Parsons · Producteur
- Mack Stengler · Directeur de la photographie
- Carl Pierson · Monteur