An amateur detective and a janitor try to find a kidnapped heiress.An amateur detective and a janitor try to find a kidnapped heiress.An amateur detective and a janitor try to find a kidnapped heiress.
Gil Stanley
- Tommy Hayes - Informant
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaFrank Graham had previously played Cosmo Jones on a CBS radio show, which he also wrote.
- ConnectionsReferenced in American Masters: Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light (2000)
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Amateur Detective vs. the Underworld
Two rival gangs start to declare war on each other, and an innocent bystander in the mix, Professor Cosmo Jones (a correspondence detective school graduate),decides to help the police stop the melee, much to the disappointment of the police captain. When a patrolman friend of Cosmo is investigated in a gang shooting and later kidnap of a key witness, Cosmo, friend Sgt. Flanagan, and Cosmo's partner Eustace unfold a plan to have the gang members wipe each other out. This one could have been somewhat better, but the plot outline for the movie probably didn't make for a long picture so a synopsis of the two gangs encounters with each other make for a 12-15 minute story where it would be at most a 90 second montage in a Warner Brothers movie of the same genre. Graham as Cosmo makes for an interesting character though, even I don't recognize what OTR program he ever appeared on. Kennedy & Moreland as usual make for good comic relief, but Cromwell's character seems to lifeless and usually halts the pace of the film in the scenes set around him. OK film for Monogram though. Rating- 4.
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- Mike-764
- May 3, 2003
Details
- Runtime1 hour 2 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was Cosmo Jones in the Crime Smasher (1943) officially released in Canada in English?
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