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Sly but not slick - Jim Hanvey tops them all! Guy Kibbee ....his most loveable role!
Jim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance company hires him to find a missing emerald so they won't have to pay out the $100,000 for which the jewel is insured. It doesn't take him long to find the emerald, but he discovers that finding it was the easy part; the difficult part is getting it back to its rightful owner, and he winds up involved in a murder in which an innocent man is framed.Read moreLess
Jim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance company hires him to find a missing emerald so they won't have to pay out the $100,000 for which the jewel is insured. It doesn't take him long to find the emerald, but he discovers that finding it was the easy part; the difficult part is getting it back to its rightful owner, and he winds up involved in a murder in which an innocent man is framed.
The story
Jim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance company hires him to find a missing emerald so they won't have to pay out the $100,000 for which the jewel is insured. It doesn't take him long to find the emerald, but he discovers that finding it was the easy part; the difficult part is getting it back to its rightful owner, and he winds up involved in a murder in which an innocent man is framed.
Cast & crew
Guy KibbeeJames Woolford 'Jim' Hanvey
Tom BrownDon Terry
Lucie KayeJoan Frost
Catherine DoucetAdelaide Frost
Edward GarganO. R.Smith
Edward BrophyRomo
Helen Jerome EddyMrs. Tom Ellis
Theodore von Eltz
Kenneth ThomsonW. B. Elwood
Howard HickmanHerbert Frost
Oscar ApfelLambert
Wade BotelerDavisExplore the crew
- Director
- Phil Rosen
- Screenplay
- Olive Cooper
- Screenplay
- Joseph Krumgold
- Editor
- William Morgan
- Director of Photography
- Jack A. Marta
- Producer
- Albert E. Levoy
- Original Music Composer
- Alberto Colombo