Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher

The story

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.

Cast & crew

Frank GrahamCosmo Jones

Edgar KennedyPolice Chief Murphy

Gale StormSusan Fleming

Richard CromwellSgt. Pat Flanagan

Mantan MorelandEustace Smith

Gwen KenyonPhyllis Blake

Herbert RawlinsonMr. James J. Blake

Tristram CoffinJake Pelotti

Charles JordanBiff Garr

Vince BarnettHenchman 'Gimp'

Emmett VoganPolice Commissioner Gould

Maxine Leslie

Maxine LeslieMrs. Jake Pelotti