Umney's Last Case

Apr 8, 2006

0h 18m

★ 7.0

Overview

It’s just another ordinary day in 1930s Los Angeles for private investigator Clyde Umney, until a new client walks into his office. Umney soon learns that his client is the crime-fiction writer who not only created him, but now needs to switch places with him.

Genres

Crime

Mystery

Production Companies

Tisch School of the Arts (NYU)

Numb Robot

Moving Images

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Cast

Clyde Umney

Joel Nagle

Samuel Landry

James Doerr

Vernon Klein

Mark Margolis

Candy Kane

Christina Dunham

Peoria Smith

David Benger

Ariot Myrtaj

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