Sky Murder
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Director George B. Seitz Duration Music director David Snell Country United States | 6/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Drama, Mystery Running time 1h 12m Story by William R. Lipman Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1940 Writer William R. Lipman (original screen play) Cast Walter Pidgeon (Nick Carter), Donald Meek (Bartholomew), Kaaren Verne (Pat Evans (as Karen Verne)), Edward Ashley (Cortland Grand), Joyce Compton (Christine Cross / Her Twin Sister), Tom Conway (Andrew Hendon)Similar movies Nick Carter, Master Detective , Phantom Raiders | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sky Murder is a 1940 film starring Walter Pidgeon in his third and final outing for MGM as Nick Carter.
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Plot
Whilst attempting to prove a beautiful immigrant innocent of murder, detective Nick Carter ends up exposing the leaders of the Fifth Column.
Cast
Box Office
According to MGM records the movie earned $270,000 in the US and Canada and $167,000 elsewhere, making a profit of $64,000.
Critical
The New York Times wrote, "let a Hollywood producer launch a film series and very shortly the stories, as they appear, become as formalized as Chinese checkers. The Nick Carter mysteries are no exception...Through it all Nick is magnificently careless. Though sudden death lurks outside the window pane, he never pulls a shade. When seconds count, he saves one to pinch a cutie's cheek. When lesser men quail, he lights a cigarette. As usual, he wins his game in a welter of comic-strip heroics. But, as we were suggesting, it's a little like playing checkers with an opponent whose tricks became familiar long ago" ; whereas Leonard Maltin called the film an "above-average private-eye yarn."
References
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