Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher (1943)
Cosmo Jones, a correspondence-school detective from a small town, comes to the big city to offer his services to the police. He happens by where a gangster is killed by an opposing gang. Socialite Phyllis Blake is running around with gang member Tom and the opposing gang plan on kidnapping her. Cosmo is with Sergeant Flanagan when the attempt is made in front of a night club, where a bystander is seriously wounded in the gun-battle. Police Chief Murphy blames Flanagan for the shooting and demotes him. Cosmo, with the aid of a porter, Eustace and Flanagan's fiancée, Susan, tries to find the killer. Phyllis is finally kidnapped and Cosmo decides the act was committed by one of the two gangs. He has her father place an ad in the newspaper that contact has been made with the kidnappers. Each gang thinks the other is pulling a double cross, and one gang wipes out the other.
Director:
James Tinling
Writers:
Michael L. Simmons, Walter Gering.
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Frank Graham as Cosmo Jones |
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Edgar Kennedy as Police Chief Murphy |
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Gale Storm as Susan Fleming |
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Richard Cromwell as Sgt. Pat Flanagan |
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Mantan Moreland as Eustace Smith |
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Gwen Kenyon as Phyllis Blake |
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Herbert Rawlinson as Mr. James J. Blake |
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Tristram Coffin as Jake Pelotti |
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Charles Jordan as Biff Garr |
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Vince Barnett as Henchman 'Gimp' |
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Emmett Vogan as Police Commissioner Gould |
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Maxine Leslie as Mrs. Jake Pelotti |
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Mauritz Hugo as Tony Sandol - Gangster |
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Gil Stanley as Tommy Hayes - Informant (uncredited) |
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Sam Bernard as Gangster |
| Directing | James Tinling | Director |
| Writing | Michael L. Simmons | Screenplay |
| Writing | Walter Gering | Screenplay |
| Writing | Walter Gering | Story |
| Writing | Frank Graham | Original Concept |
| Production | Lindsley Parsons | Producer |
| Camera | Mack Stengler | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Carl Pierson | Editor |
| Art | Dave Milton | Art Direction |
| Sound | Edward J. Kay | Music Director |
