Super-Sleuth

1937 film by Benjamin Stoloff

July 16, 1937 (1937-07-16)

Running time

75 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Super-Sleuth is a 1937 American mystery comedy film directed by Ben Stoloff.^[1] It was an early lead role for Jack Oakie.^[2] Super Sleuth was a remade in 1946 as Genius at Work, with comedy team of Wally Brown and Alan Carney.^[3]

Plot

A film detective believes he actually has the skills to solve a real life case. Bill Martin's (Jack Oakie) boasts irritate the real detectives of the Los Angeles police, as well as studio publicist Mary Strand (Ann Sothern), who loves Bill but doesn't appreciate the actor's arrogance.

A mysterious killer known as the "Poison Pen" decides to murder Bill, annoyed with his last movie. Bill and Mary go to amateur sleuth Professor Herman (Eduardo Ciannelli) for advice, unaware that the professor and the murderer are one and the same.

By mistake, film co-star Ralph Waring (Bradley Page) is killed by the Poison Pen, and stand-in Larry Frank (Alan Bruce) is suspected of the crime. To save Bill from the killer and from himself, Mary arranges for him to be locked up, but the gullible Bill gets Professor Herman to bail him out of jail. Mary and the cops come to his rescue just in time.

Cast

Jack Oakie as Willard "Bill" Martin
Ann Sothern as Mary Strand
Eduardo Ciannelli as Professor Herman
Alan Bruce as Larry Frank
Edgar Kennedy as Lieutenant Garrison
Joan Woodbury as Doris Dunne
Bradley Page as Ralph Waring
Paul Guilfoyle as Gibbons
Willie Best as Warts
William Corson as Beckett
Alec Craig as Eddie, doorman

References

^ Super-Sleuth at the TCM Movie Database
^ Schallert, Edwin (Nov 14, 1936). "HAL MOHR TO DIRECT "CLASS PROPHECY;" JACK OAKIE CAST AS "SUPER SLEUTH": Bernadene Hayes Tested for "Stella Dallas;" Beauties in McLaglen Film". Los Angeles Times. p. 10.
^ "Super Sleuth (1937) - Ben Stoloff, Benjamin Stoloff | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie".

External links

Super-Sleuth at IMDb
Super-Sleuth at AllMovie
Super-Sleuth at the TCM Movie Database
Super-Sleuth at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films

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