Jim Hanvey, Detective
In this detective story, a super sleuth is hired by an insurance company to find a stolen emerald belonging to a rich man's daughter. He soon discovers that the theft was a hoax precipitated by the girl's boyfriend, an aspiring novelist doing research for his forthcoming novel. Real trouble ensues when the gem really is taken. Again the detective begins investigating. He soon discovers that the crook is an official at the insurance company.
Jim Hanvey, Detective is a 1937 American film directed by Phil Rosen.
Plot
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.
Cast
Guy Kibbee as James Woolford “Jim” Hanvey
Tom Brown as Don Terry
Lucie Kaye as Joan Frost
Catherine Doucet as Adelaide Frost
Edward Gargan as O. R.Smith
Edward Brophy as Romo
Helen Jerome Eddy as Mrs. Tom Ellis
Theodore von Eltz as Dunn
Kenneth Thomson as W. B. Elwood
Howard C. Hickman as Herbert Frost
Oscar Apfel as Lambert
Wade Boteler as Davis
Robert Emmett Keane as Editor
Robert Homans as Sheriff Garrett
Harry Tyler as Taxi Driver
Frank Darien as Pete
Charles Williams as Brackett
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