The Phantom of 42nd Street
1945 film by Albert Herman
- May 2, 1945 (1945-05-02)
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The Phantom of 42nd Street is a 1945 American mystery film directed by Albert Herman and starring Dave O'Brien, Kay Aldridge and Alan Mowbray.[1] It was produced by the low-budget Poverty Row studio Producers Releasing Corporation. The film's sets were designed by the art director Paul Palmentola.
Plot
An actor is killed during the performance of a play while critic Tony Woolrich (Dave O'Brien) is attending. Initially Woolrich is reluctant to investigate, even though he's encouraged to do so by his friend Romeo (Frank Jenks), who is also the taxi driver who brought him to the show, and acts as a sort of sidekick throughout the story.
Tony is chewed out by his editor for not investigating when he happened to be at the scene of the crime, and so he takes an initially reluctant interest. Tony becomes more involved in the investigation when there is another murder, and when Claudia Moore (Kay Aldridge, in her last movie role), the girl he loves, is suspected, and is also possibly threatened by the killer.
Cast
- Dave O'Brien as Tony Woolrich
- Kay Aldridge as Claudia Moore
- Alan Mowbray as Cecil Moore
- Frank Jenks as Egbert "Romeo" Egelhofer, taxi driver
- Edythe Elliott as Jane Buchanan
- Jack Mulhall as Lt. Walsh
- Vera Marshe as Ginger
- Stanley Price as Reggie Thomas/The Phantom
- John Crawford as John Carraby
- Cyril Delevanti as Roberts
- Paul Power as Timothy Wells
- Budd Buster as Mike, stage doorman
- Pat Gleason as Reporter
- Milton Kibbee as Peters, newspaper editor
- Harry Strang as Policeman
- Robert Strange as Soothsayer in Play
References
- ^ Fetrow p.372
Bibliography
- Fetrow, Alan G. Feature Films, 1940-1949: a United States Filmography. McFarland, 1994.
External links
- The Phantom of 42nd Street at IMDb
- The Phantom of 42nd Street at Rotten Tomatoes
- The Phantom of 42nd Street is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
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Films directed by Albert Herman
- Sporting Chance (1931)
- Exposed (1932)
- The Big Chance (1933)
- Twisted Rails (1934)
- Hot Off the Press (1935)
- Speed Limited (1935)
- Gun Play (1935)
- Big Boy Rides Again (1935)
- Western Frontier (1935)
- Million Dollar Haul (1935)
- What Price Crime (1935)
- The Cowboy and the Bandit (1935)
- Danger Ahead (1935)
- The Drunkard (1935)
- Bars of Hate (1935)
- Trails End (1935)
- Blazing Justice (1936)
- Outlaws of the Range (1936)
- Valley of Terror (1937)
- Renfrew of the Royal Mounted (1937)
- Rollin' Plains (1938)
- Where the Buffalo Roam (1938)
- Starlight Over Texas (1938)
- On the Great White Trail (1938)
- The Utah Trail (1938)
- Song of the Buckaroo (1938)
- Sundown on the Prairie (1939)
- Rollin' Westward (1939)
- Man from Texas (1939)
- Down the Wyoming Trail (1939)
- The Golden Trail (1940)
- Rhythm of the Rio Grande (1940)
- Pals of the Silver Sage (1940)
- Rainbow Over the Range (1940)
- Roll Wagons Roll (1940)
- Arizona Frontier (1940)
- Take Me Back to Oklahoma (1940)
- Rollin' Home to Texas (1940)
- Gentleman from Dixie (1941)
- The Pioneers (1941)
- Miss V from Moscow (1942)
- A Yank in Libya (1942)
- The Rangers Take Over (1942)
- The Dawn Express (1942)
- Bad Men of Thunder Gap (1943)
- Rogues' Gallery (1944)
- Delinquent Daughters (1944)
- Shake Hands with Murder (1944)
- The Missing Corpse (1945)
- The Phantom of 42nd Street (1945)
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