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1939 film
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The Invisible Killer
Directed bySam Newfield
Written byJoseph O'Donnell
Based onThe Fox and the Hound by Maxwell Shane
Produced bySigmund Neufeld
StarringGrace Bradley
Roland Drew
William Newell
CinematographyJack Greenhalgh
Edited byHolbrook N. Todd
Music byDavid Chudnow
Production
company
Sigmund Neufeld Productions
Distributed byProducers Distributing Corporation
Release date
  • November 14, 1939 (1939-11-14)
Running time63 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Invisible Killer is a 1939 American mystery film directed by Sam Newfield and starring Grace Bradley, Roland Drew and William Newell. It was one of the earliest films made by Producers Releasing Corporation, a low-budget outfit concentrating on second features.

Plot

A racketeer offers to inform the district attorney about the ringleaders of a gambling syndicate but is murdered before he can do so by a seeming "invisible killer." Newspaper reporter Sue Walker and her policeman, fiancée Jerry Brown take up the investigation.

Cast

References

  1. Gates p.96

Bibliography

  • Gates, Phillipa. Detecting Women: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film. SUNY Press, 2011.

External links

Films directed by Sam Newfield
1930s
1940s
1950s


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