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Front Page Detective - The Little Black Book
USA 1951
produced by Jerry Fairbanks for DuMont Television Network
directed by Arnold Webster
starring Edmund Lowe, James Craven, Pamela Duncan, Jean Willes, Eddie Foster, George Pembroke, Joe Besser, Dick Rich
written by William Wolf
TV-series Front Page Detective
review by Mike Haberfelner
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When famed columnist and amateur detective David Chase (Edmund Lowe)
returns from an out-of-town assignment, he finds his apartment searched
and a dead body in his wardrobe, and all he knows is the deceased had
something to do with the black book in which crime kingpin Baxter (James
Craven) meticulously noted down all his illegal operations ... but for
some reason, both Baxter and his rival Keeley (Eddie Foster) seem to think
that Chase has the black book, and he hasn't got the slightest idea why -
it's because someone has delivered the book to his building's clerk (Joe
Besser) care of him while he was out of town, but Chase only learns that
very late in the story, when Baxter and Keeley are already dueling
themselves over the book, with Chase in the middle - but the police
intervenes just in time ... Rather average crime story that's
too convoluted and too simplistic at the same time to remain believable,
but at least it's told in a rather light-footed way and Edmund Lowe has a
rather likeable screen presence to carry the whole thing.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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