Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher
Radio's crack-brain criminologist stands headquarters on its head in his first raid on screen gangsters!
- Drama
- Crime
- Romance
- Mystery
Overview
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 29, 1943
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Monogram Pictures
- Cast
- Frank Graham,Sam Bernard,Edgar Kennedy,Gil Stanley,Richard Cromwell,Vince Barnett,Gwen Kenyon,Tris Coffin,Emmett Vogan,Charles Jordanand 5 more
- Director
- James Tinling
- Producer
- Lindsley Parsons
- Cinematography
- Mack Stengler
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0035758