JIM HANVEY, DETECTIVE (1937) Guy Kibbee, Tom Brown & Lucie Kaye | Action, Crime, Mystery | B&W

Jim Hanvey, Detective is a 1937 American mystery film directed by Phil Rosen and starring Guy Kibbee, Tom Brown and Lucie Kaye. It was produced and distributed by Republic Pictures. It is loosely based on the short story collection of the same name by novelist Octavus Roy Cohen.

SYNOPSIS
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.

CAST & CREW
Guy Kibbee as James Woolford "Jim" Hanvey
Tom Brown as Don Terry
Lucie Kaye as Joan Frost
Catherine Doucet as Adelaide Frost
Edward Gargan as O. R.Smith
Edward Brophy as Romo
Helen Jerome Eddy as Mrs. Tom Ellis
Theodore von Eltz as Dunn
Kenneth Thomson as W. B. Elwood
Howard C. Hickman as Herbert Frost
Oscar Apfel as Lambert
Wade Boteler as Davis
Robert Emmett Keane as Editor
Robert Homans as Sheriff Garrett
Harry Tyler as Taxi Driver
Frank Darien as Pete
Charles Williams as Brackett

Directed by Phil Rosen
Written by Octavus Roy Cohen (story), Olive Cooper (screenplay), Cortland Fitzsimmons (adaptation), Joseph Krumgold (screenplay), Eric Taylor (adaptation)
Produced by Albert E. Levoy
Cinematography Jack A. Marta
Edited by William Morgan
Production company Republic Pictures
Distributed by Republic Pictures
Release date April 5, 1937
Running time 71 minutes
Country United States
Language English