The Corpse Came C.O.D.

Jun 2, 1947

1h 27m

★ 5.7

Murder inside a studio!

Overview

Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and the box she receives with a dead man inside.

Genres

Comedy

Mystery

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

The Corpse Came C.O.D. Trailers

No Trailers found.

Cast

Joe Medford

George Brent

Rosemary Durant

Joan Blondell

Mona Harrison

Adele Jergens

Det. Lt. Mark Wilson

Jim Bannon

Peggy Holmes

Leslie Brooks

Rudy Frasso

Marvin Miller

Nora

Una O'Connor

Mitchell Edwards

Grant Mitchell

Felice

Mary Field

Det. Dave Short (as Fred Sears)

Fred F. Sears

City Editor Emmett Willard

Cliff Clark

Larry Massey, Photographer

John Berkes

Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.

5.5

I Love Trouble

Jun 29, 1994

Rival Chicago reporters Sabrina Peterson and Peter Brackett join forces to uncover a train wreck conspiracy.

6.0

Impact

Mar 20, 1949

After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.

5.9

We're Not Married!

Jul 11, 1952

A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married.

6.7

Monkey Business

Sep 3, 1952

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.

6.5

Fun with Dick and Jane

Mar 18, 1977

When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.

6.0

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Jan 31, 1941

Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her? To her shock, he answers, "No". Later that day, they separately discover that, due to a legal complication, they are not legally married.

6.9

Woman of the Year

Feb 5, 1942

Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.

6.4

Double Wedding

Oct 15, 1937

A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.

6.7

Love Crazy

May 23, 1941

Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.

0.0

Copy

Oct 11, 1929

On a slow news day, the wisecracking staff of a newspaper write articles about the serious safety issues of a local excursion steamboat line.

6.4

Far Side of the Moon

Sep 9, 2003

After the death of his mother, a man tries to discover a meaning to his life, to the universe and to rebuild a relationship with the only family he has left: his gay brother.

5.1

A Shriek in the Night

Jul 22, 1933

Rival newspaper reporters Pat Morgan and Ted Rand find themselves unraveling the mystery behind the death of a millionaire philanthropist who fell from his penthouse balcony. When it is discovered that the plunge was not an accident, the building's residents come under suspicion. Soon, the body count begins to mount as three more murders occur by strangulation.

6.3

Paris When It Sizzles

Mar 1, 1964

Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his latest movie. Benson has been in Paris supposedly working on the script for months, but instead has spent the time living it up. Benson now has just two days to the deadline and thus hires a temporary secretary, Gabrielle Simpson, to help him finish on time.

2.2

Heads

Jan 29, 1994

A proofreader at a small-town newspaper decides to try to solve a series of decapitation murders, and reluctantly gets involved with the nutty daughter of his editor. Before long he discovers that he is the prime suspect in the murders.