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Crime lab expert Gordon McKay uses the latest forensic techniques to solve murders in a city plagued by political corruption and mob rackets.Crime lab expert Gordon McKay uses the latest forensic techniques to solve murders in a city plagued by political corruption and mob rackets.Crime lab expert Gordon McKay uses the latest forensic techniques to solve murders in a city plagued by political corruption and mob rackets.
Cathy Lewis
- Bessie Wright
- (as Catherine Lewis)
Ernie Alexander
- Truck Driver Eating at Eddie's
- (uncredited)
Sam Ash
- Card Player in Montage
- (uncredited)
Brandon Beach
- Club Patron
- (uncredited)
Leon Belasco
- Chris Spyro - Cook
- (uncredited)
Brooks Benedict
- Club Patron
- (uncredited)
Margaret Bert
- Miss Huser - Mayor's Secretary
- (uncredited)
Robert Blake
- Boy in Car
- (uncredited)
Eugene Borden
- Pierre - Headwaiter
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDuring the sneak preview performance, first-time feature director Fred Zinnemann noticed that all the MGM executives got up and walked out together. He later found out that it had nothing to do with the film. They had just gotten the news that Carole Lombard had been killed in a plane crash.
- GoofsIn the first scene, the city view with busy street is reversed.
- Quotes
Eddie Wright: Just bury me with one of your swell hamburgers on my chest.
Bessie Wright: With onions?
Eddie Wright: You oughta know by now.
- ConnectionsFollows They're Always Caught (1938)
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One of my favorite B-films from the '40s...nice cast...
Everything about KID GLOVE KILLER is extremely dated. And yet it's fun to watch VAN HEFLIN and MARSHA HUNT go about solving a crime using old techniques and spouting a lot of artificial dialog, 1940s style.
Both of them also smoke frequently. "Match me," becomes a standard line. A cast of standard MGM B-players keeps things going nicely as Heflin and Marsh investigate the murder of a politician, when all the time we know who the killer is--LEE BOWMAN. Bowman is one of those actors who never quite made it to big time stardom, but he's completely at home here in the role of a ruthless heel.
All of the suspense in a story of this kind lies in wondering how the killer will be caught--since he's very manipulative and very cunning. His charm makes his criminal nature very deceptive to both Bowman and Hunt.
Favorite line: "Just bury me with one of your swell hamburgers on my chest." Reply: "With onions?"
If you watch carefully, you can spot BOBBY BLAKE as a youngster listening to a car radio and AVA GARDNER as a car-hop waitress.
This one, and GRAND CENTRAL MURDER made the same year, are well worth watching and nicely directed by Fred Zinnemann who later went on to A-film assignments.
Both of them also smoke frequently. "Match me," becomes a standard line. A cast of standard MGM B-players keeps things going nicely as Heflin and Marsh investigate the murder of a politician, when all the time we know who the killer is--LEE BOWMAN. Bowman is one of those actors who never quite made it to big time stardom, but he's completely at home here in the role of a ruthless heel.
All of the suspense in a story of this kind lies in wondering how the killer will be caught--since he's very manipulative and very cunning. His charm makes his criminal nature very deceptive to both Bowman and Hunt.
Favorite line: "Just bury me with one of your swell hamburgers on my chest." Reply: "With onions?"
If you watch carefully, you can spot BOBBY BLAKE as a youngster listening to a car radio and AVA GARDNER as a car-hop waitress.
This one, and GRAND CENTRAL MURDER made the same year, are well worth watching and nicely directed by Fred Zinnemann who later went on to A-film assignments.
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- Doylenf
- Dec 12, 2006
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- Along Came Murder
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- $199,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 14 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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