No Hands on the Clock (1941)

No Hands on the Clock (1941)

The first of three Pine-Thomas productions for Chester Morris finds him as wise-cracking private detective Humphrey Campbell who impresses his boss, Oscar Flack, no end by not only finding a missing girl but also marrying her in the process. So Flack sends him to celebrate his honeymoon in the Divorce Capital of the world, Reno, Nevada, to find a missing man.

Director: Frank McDonald
Writers: Daniel Mainwaring (novel "No Hands on the Clock"), Maxwell Shane (screenplay)
Stars: Chester Morris, Jean Parker, Rose Hobart

Trivia
The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film.

Connections
Edited into Who Dunit Theater: No Hands on the Clock (2021)

Soundtracks
Dolores
Music by Louis Alter (uncredited)
Played by nightclub pianist