Charlie McCarthy, Detective

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Original title: Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Year: 1939
Running time: 65 min.
Country: United States
Director: Frank Tuttle
Screenwriter: Edward Eliscu, Richard Mack, Harold Shumate (Plot: Darrell Ware, Robertson White)
Music: Frank Skinner
Cinematography: George Robinson (B&W)
Cast: Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd, Robert Cummings, Constance Moore, John Sutton, Louis Calhern, Edgar Kennedy, Samuel S. Hinds, Harold Huber, Warren Hymer, Ray Turner
Producer: Universal Pictures
Genre: Comedy
Synopsis / Plot: Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected. However, Hamilton's friend Edgar Bergen solves the case (without much help from Charlie McCarthy).

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