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Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher

40 %|Jan 29, 1943|Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance

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.

Featured Crew

James Tinling
Director
Michael L. Simmons
Screenplay
Walter Gering
Screenplay
Walter Gering
Story
Frank Graham
Original Concept
Lindsley Parsons
Producer
Mack Stengler
Director of Photography
Carl Pierson
Editor

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Cast

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Frank Graham
Cosmo Jones
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Edgar Kennedy
Police Chief Murphy
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Gale Storm
Susan Fleming
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Richard Cromwell
Sgt. Pat Flanagan
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Mantan Moreland
Eustace Smith
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Gwen Kenyon
Phyllis Blake
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Herbert Rawlinson
Mr. James J. Blake
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Tris Coffin
Jake Pelotti
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Vince Barnett
Henchman 'Gimp'
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Emmett Vogan
Police Commissioner Gould
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Maxine Leslie
Mrs. Jake Pelotti
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Mauritz Hugo
Tony Sandol - Gangster
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Gil Stanley
Tommy Hayes - Informant (uncredited)
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Sam Bernard
Gangster