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The Hat Box Mystery (1947) [Movie] TMDB IMDb

The Hat Box Mystery

director: Lambert Hillyer actor: Tom Neal / Pamela Blake …

Susan Hart, assistant to private detective Russ Ashton, is given a camera concealed in a hat box and assigned to take a picture of a woman. A gun is accidentally hidden in the box and the woman is killed. Susan is charged with murder, but Russ and his less-than-useful associate, Harvard, get on the case.

Crashing Hollywood (1938) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData

Crashing Hollywood

director: Lew Landers actor: Lee Tracy / Joan Woodbury …

A true-to-life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood.

Torchy Runs for Mayor (1939) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb

Torchy Runs for Mayor

director: Ray McCarey actor: Glenda Farrell / Barton MacLane …

Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.

Torchy Gets Her Man (1938) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb

Torchy Gets Her Man

director: William Beaudine actor: Glenda Farrell / Barton MacLane …

A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands.

Torchy Blane in Panama (1938) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData

Torchy Blane in Panama

director: William Clemens actor: Lola Lane / Paul Kelly …

Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.

Forty Naughty Girls (1937) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData

Forty Naughty Girls

director: Edward F. Cline actor: James Gleason / Zasu Pitts …

other title: El misterio del camerino

Hildegarde Withers and Inspector Piper try to solve a murder while attending a popular Broadway show.

Big News (1929) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData

Big News

director: Gregory La Cava actor: Robert Armstrong / Carole Lombard …

A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.

Blondes at Work (1938) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData

Blondes at Work

director: Frank McDonald actor: Glenda Farrell / Barton MacLane …

When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.

Spooks! (1953) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData

Spooks!

director: Jules White actor: Shemp Howard / Larry Fine …

The stooges are private detectives hired to find a missing girl. The boys disguise as pie salesmen and end up wandering around a mad scientist's mansion, trying to find the girl. The boys confront a gorilla and various other bad guys, before rescuing the girl.