Jim Hanvey, Detective (1937)

Sly but not slick - Jim Hanvey tops them all! Guy Kibbee ....his most loveable role!

Mystery

Action

Crime

Romance

Overview.

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.

Top Cast

Guy Kibbee

James Woolford 'Jim' Hanvey

Tom Brown

Don Terry

Lucie Kaye

Joan Frost

Catherine Doucet

Adelaide Frost

Edward Gargan

O. R.Smith

Edward Brophy

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