Jim Hanvey, Detective
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“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.
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Guy Kibbee
James Woolford 'Jim' Hanvey
Known for
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
42nd Street
Tom Brown
Don Terry
Also in
Judge Priest
Mr. Lucky
Phil Rosen
Olive Cooper
Joseph Krumgold
Jack A. Marta
Lucie Kaye
Joan Frost
Also in
Portia on Trial
William Morgan
Albert E. Levoy
Catherine Doucet
Adelaide Frost
Also in
These Three
It Started with Eve
Eric Taylor
Eloise
Phil Rosen Director · Joseph Krumgold Screenplay Olive Cooper Screenplay
United States release April 5, 1937 · Produced in United States
Production
Republic Pictures
Production
United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · April 5, 1937
Theatrical
Portugal
January 31, 1938
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