30 Sep 2011
Blackmail for Beginners
In desperate need of $150,000 for his father's heart transplant, Simen tries to blackmail a dysfunctional robber.
Jim Hanvey, Detective
Sly but not slick - Jim Hanvey tops them all! Guy Kibbee ....his most loveable role!
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.
Top Billed Cast
Guy Kibbee James Woolford 'Jim' Hanvey
Tom Brown Don Terry
Lucie Kaye Joan Frost
Catherine Doucet Adelaide Frost
Edward Gargan O. R.Smith
Edward Brophy Romo
Helen Jerome Eddy Mrs. Tom Ellis
Theodore von Eltz Dunn
Kenneth Thomson W. B. Elwood
Howard Hickman Herbert Frost
Oscar Apfel Lambert
Wade Boteler Davis
Robert Emmett Keane Editor
Robert Homans Sheriff Garrett
Harry Tyler Taxi Driver
Frank Darien Pete
Charles Williams Brackett
Richard Beach Bit (uncredited)
William Benedict Copy Boy (uncredited)
Lillian Elliott Society Woman (uncredited)
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