The Detective Bill Crane Collection

Preston Foster

Patricia Ellis

Frank Jenks

Thomas E. Jackson

Bill Elliott

Roland Drew

Barbara Pepper

Joe Downing

Archie Robbins

Al Hill

Morgan Wallace

Brian Burke

Donald Kerr

Don Brodie

Rollo Lloyd

Gordon Hart

Byron Foulger

Eddie Hall

Peter Lind Hayes

Stanley Price

Minerva Urecal

Otis Garrett

Jonathan Latimer

Eric Taylor

Robertson White

Charles Carroll

Mystery

Crime

The Lady in the Morgue

Universal Pictures

United States of America

CinemaSerf

Hold on to your hats - this doesn't (sorry) hang around. A woman's body is found in a dodgy hotel. The police think it suicide, but before anyone can establish who did what to whom - and, indeed, whom she actually was - the body goes AWOL. Investigating PI "Dick Crane" (Preston Foster) gets bumped over the head for his troubles as he attempts to convince the police his is not connected with the disappearing corpse, whilst he and his sidekick "Doc" (Frank Jenks) try to find the real culprits and repatriate the body to the morgue... This production is all very basic, the writing likewise, but Otis Garnett keeps the thing moving along hell-for-leather and what it lacks in substance it makes up for in enthusiasm. Maybe a bit too wordy, but still kills an hour ok.

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