Private Detective 62

Private Detective 62
Theatrical Film Poster
Directed by	Michael Curtiz
Screenplay by	Rian James
Story by	Raoul Whitfield
Starring	William Powell
Cinematography	Tony Gaudio
Edited by	Harold McLernon
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release dates	June 10, 1933 (1933-06-10) (USA)
Running time	66 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Private Detective 62 is a 1933 American Pre-Code detective film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring William Powell. It is a film about a private detective who falls for the beautiful gambling lady he has been hired to frame in a scandal.

Plot

In France, United States State Department employee Donald Free (William Powell) is caught trying to steal French state papers. Free is released from his job and is deported. Back in the US, Free has a hard time finding another job due to the Great Depression. Free convinces Dan Hogan (Arthur Hohl), the crooked and incompentent owner of the Peerless Detective Agency, to partner with him. Without Free's knowledge, Hogan becomes financed with gangster Tony Bandor (Gordon Westcott) and business booms.

Bandor complains that a society woman, Janet Reynolds (Margaret Lindsay), is winning too much at his gambling tables and hires Hogan to find some scandal he can use to prevent her from collecting her winnings. Hogan assigns Free, without telling him the truth behind the request. But, while keeping an eye on Janet, Free falls in love with her. When Janet informs Bandor that she wants to collect her winnings, Hogan suggests to Bandor that they make Janet think she has killed Bandor under suspicious conditions. Hogan then double-crosses Bandor by hiring a thug to shoot him after Janet leaves the apartment. Janet not knowing what to do, asks Free to help her. Free learns the identity of Bandor's actual killer and traces him back to Hogan. Meanwhile, Hogan tries to blackmail Janet. After Donald has Hogan arrested, he is offered his old job again, but tells Janet that it is not the sort of life he could ask anyone to share with him so he leaves. As he is leaving, Janet proposes to him and he accepts.

Cast

William Powell as Free
Margaret Lindsay as Janet
Ruth Donnelly as Amy
Gordon Westcott as Bandor
Arthur Hohl as Hogan
Natalie Moorhead as Helen
James Bell as Whitey
Hobart Cavanaugh as Burns
Irving Bacon as taxi driver

Production

The film's working titles were Private Detective and Man Killer. According to production records in the file on the film in the AMPAS library, the film was shot over twenty-one days at a cost of $260,000. Modern sources list Hal B. Wallis as supervisor.^[1]

References

↑ "Private Detective 62 Notes". www.tcm.com. Retrieved March 15, 2014.

External links

Private Detective 62 at the Internet Movie Database
Private Detective 62 at the TCM Movie Database

Films directed by Michael Curtiz

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1920s	Boccaccio The Star of Damascus The Scourge of God Mrs. Tutti Frutti Good and Evil Mrs. Dane's Confession Labyrinth of Horror Sodom and Gomorrah Young Medardus Avalanche Nameless A Deadly Game General Babka Harun al Raschid The Moon of Israel Red Heels Cab No. 13 The Golden Butterfly The Third Degree A Million Bid The Desired Woman Good Time Charley Tenderloin Noah's Ark Glad Rag Doll Madonna of Avenue A The Gamblers Hearts in Exile

1930s	Mammy Under a Texas Moon The Matrimonial Bed Bright Lights A Soldier's Plaything River's End Demon of the Sea God's Gift to Women The Mad Genius The Woman from Monte Carlo Alias the Doctor The Strange Love of Molly Louvain Doctor X The Cabin in the Cotton 20,000 Years in Sing Sing Mystery of the Wax Museum The Keyhole Private Detective 62 Goodbye Again The Kennel Murder Case Female Mandalay Jimmy the Gent The Key British Agent The Case of the Curious Bride Black Fury Front Page Woman Little Big Shot Captain Blood The Walking Dead The Charge of the Light Brigade Stolen Holiday Mountain Justice Kid Galahad The Perfect Specimen Gold Is Where You Find It The Adventures of Robin Hood (with William Keighley) Four's a Crowd Four Daughters Angels with Dirty Faces Dodge City Daughters Courageous The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex Four Wives

1940s	Virginia City The Sea Hawk Santa Fe Trail The Sea Wolf Dive Bomber Captains of the Clouds Yankee Doodle Dandy Casablanca Mission to Moscow This Is the Army Passage to Marseille Janie Roughly Speaking Mildred Pierce Night and Day Life with Father The Unsuspected Romance on the High Seas My Dream Is Yours (with Friz Freleng) Flamingo Road The Lady Takes a Sailor

1950s	Young Man with a Horn Bright Leaf The Breaking Point Force of Arms Jim Thorpe – All-American I'll See You in My Dreams The Story of Will Rogers The Jazz Singer Trouble Along the Way The Boy from Oklahoma The Egyptian White Christmas We're No Angels The Scarlet Hour The Vagabond King The Best Things in Life Are Free The Helen Morgan Story The Proud Rebel King Creole The Hangman The Man in the Net

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Productions	Bright Lights (1935)

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