Partners in Crime
Cast & Crew
Ralph Murphy
Lynne Overman
Roscoe Karns
Muriel Hutchison
Anthony Quinn
Inez Courtney
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Detective Hank Hyer and reporter Sim Perkins of The Star are nearly evicted from Twitchell Arms apartments. Hank then needles Silas Wagon, who is running for mayor, into hiring him to help him defeat incumbent Callaghan, a grafter, who is running a crooked campaign. Next, Odette La Vin checks into Twitchell Arms with ex-con Nick Mazaney in order to blackmail Wagon with a bigamy scandal by claiming she is his daughter. However, Callaghan, who hired Mazaney to get rid of Wagon, realizes Mazaney might get a higher price from Wagon by letting him win the election and has him arrested. Odette goes ahead with her scheme, however, and gives Wagon one day to come up with $10,000. Hank then gets Sim drunk to land him in jail with Mazaney and interview him. Odette makes her move during a campaign speech, calling Wagon "father" and getting her story in the newspapers. Callaghan is confused because he knows Odette is not on the payroll. Hank then makes a speech to Wagon's constituents about the cause being "greater than any individual," making a case for Sim to run for mayor on the laurels of his editorials, which have been criticizing Callaghan and his grafters. In jail, meanwhile, Sim offers his cold medicine to Mazaney, who apparently falls dead. Sim is accused of murder until Hank discovers a poisoned cigarette butt in the cell, which was delivered by a messenger to Mazaney. The messenger identifies Wagon as the murderer, but Hank proves the cigarettes came from Odette. Mazaney then recovers and the police arrest Odette for a string of crimes perpetrated across the country. Sim runs for mayor against Callaghan and wins, but, much to Sim's relief, Callaghan reveals that Sim is a Canadian citizen and kicks Hank out of town.
Director
Ralph Murphy
Cast
Lynne Overman
Roscoe Karns
Muriel Hutchison
Anthony Quinn
Inez Courtney
Lucien Littlefield
Charles Halton
Charles Wilson
June Brewster
Esther Howard
Nora Cecil
Russell Hicks
Don Brodie
Archie Twitchell
Arthur Hoyt
Howard Mitchell
Dick Rush
Bill Gould
Duke York
Dutch Hendrian
George Lloyd
William Burress
Jack Cheatham
Robert Homans
Evelyn Dockson
Ottola Nesmith
Sarah Edwards
Jane K. Loofbourrow
Genevieve Bell
John Ivan
Hooper Atchley
William Jeffrey
Harry C. Bradley
Sydney De Grey
Ray Stewart
Wheaton Chambers
Charles Sherlock
Russell Coller
Harry Strang
Eddie Fetherston
Lester Dorr
Jerry Storm
Ruth Warren
Rollo Lloyd
Charles Williams
Lucille Ward
Jack Daley
Lee Shumway
Jack Green
Charles Lane
Robert Strange
Bill Franey
Howard Brooks
Nick Copeland
Francis H. Sayles
C. L. Sherwood
Harry Bowen
Art Rowlands
Ben Taggart
Hal Price
Davison Clark
Harry Semels
Arthur Shank
Dell Henderson
Jack Raymond
Ethel Clayton
Elsa Connor
Gloria Williams
Helaine Moler
Ricca Allen
Dorothy White
Crew
Hans Dreier
George Dutton
A. E. Freudeman
Stanley Goldsmith
William Lackey
William Le Baron
Brian Marlow
Boris Morros
Walter Oberst
Robert Odell
Henry Sharp
Eda Warren
Garnett Weston
Adolph Zukor
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
A working title for this film was Murder Goes to Jail. According to a February 19, 1937 Hollywood Reporter news item, Paramount planned to develop a series based on Kurt Steel's characters. In March 1937, Paramount released Murder Goes to College, also based on Steel's novel. The second film in the series was announced as Murder Goes to the Races. It is not known if Murder Goes to the Races was a working title for Partners in Crime, or if it was a separate story that was never filmed. Lynne Overman, as "Detective Hank Hyer," and Roscoe Karns, as reporter "Sim Perkins," appear in both Murder Goes to College and Partners in Crime, although no other films based on their characters were made. According to a July 13, 1937 news item in Hollywood Reporter, Porter Hall, originally cast as Silas Wagon, left the set to attend the funeral of his mother and was replaced by Charles Halton. All of Hall's scenes were reshot.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1937
Released in United States 1937
