Jim Hanvey, Detective

Apr 5, 1937

1h 11m

★ 5.9

Sly but not slick - Jim Hanvey tops them all! Guy Kibbee ....his most loveable role!

Overview

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.

Genres

Mystery

Action

Crime

Romance

Production Companies

Republic Pictures

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Cast

James Woolford 'Jim' Hanvey

Guy Kibbee

Don Terry

Tom Brown

Joan Frost

Lucie Kaye

Adelaide Frost

Catherine Doucet

O. R.Smith

Edward Gargan

Romo

Edward Brophy

Mrs. Tom Ellis

Helen Jerome Eddy

Dunn

Theodore von Eltz

W. B. Elwood

Kenneth Thomson

Herbert Frost

Howard Hickman

Lambert

Oscar Apfel

Davis

Wade Boteler

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