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Feature film — 1937

Jim Hanvey, Detective (1937)

6.51h 11mMystery — Action — Crime — Romance

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.

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Director: Phil Rosen

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Cast & crew

Guy Kibbee as James Woolford 'Jim' Hanvey

Guy Kibbee

James Woolford 'Jim' Hanvey

Tom Brown as Don Terry

Tom Brown

Don Terry

Lucie Kaye as Joan Frost

Lucie Kaye

Joan Frost

Catherine Doucet as Adelaide Frost

Catherine Doucet

Adelaide Frost

Edward Gargan as O. R.Smith

Edward Gargan

O. R.Smith

Edward Brophy as Romo

Edward Brophy

Romo

Helen Jerome Eddy as Mrs. Tom Ellis

Helen Jerome Eddy

Mrs. Tom Ellis

Theodore von Eltz as Dunn

Theodore von Eltz

Dunn

Kenneth Thomson as W. B. Elwood

Kenneth Thomson

W. B. Elwood

Howard Hickman as Herbert Frost

Howard Hickman

Herbert Frost

Oscar Apfel as Lambert

Oscar Apfel

Lambert

Wade Boteler as Davis

Wade Boteler

Davis

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