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Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher
“Radio's crack-brain criminologist stands headquarters on its head in his first raid on screen gangsters!”
4.6 / 10• 1943• 1h 2m•NR• English
CrimeDramaMysteryRomance
Storyline
Cosmo Jones, a correspondence-school detective from a small town, comes to the big city to offer his services to the police. He happens by where a gangster is killed by an opposing gang. Socialite Phyllis Blake is running around with gang member Tom and the opposing gang plan on kidnapping her. Cosmo is with Sergeant Flanagan when the attempt is made in front of a night club, where a bystander is seriously wounded in the gun-battle. Police Chief Murphy blames Flanagan for the shooting and demotes him. Cosmo, with the aid of a porter, Eustace and Flanagan's fiancée, Susan, tries to find the killer. Phyllis is finally kidnapped and Cosmo decides the act was committed by one of the two gangs. He has her father place an ad in the newspaper that contact has been made with the kidnappers. Each gang thinks the other is pulling a double cross, and one gang wipes out the other.
Cast & Crew
Frank Graham
Cosmo Jones
Lead
Edgar Kennedy
Police Chief Murphy
Gale Storm
Susan Fleming
Richard Cromwell
Sgt. Pat Flanagan
Mantan Moreland
Eustace Smith
Gwen Kenyon
Phyllis Blake
Herbert Rawlinson
Mr. James J. Blake
Tristram Coffin
Jake Pelotti
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. James Tinling's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
