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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)
Featured review
A decent formula movie by a young Fred Zinneman
Kid Gloves Killer (1942)
There might be little to recommend this movie beyond a look at Van Heflin in a constrained early role. Oh, and that the director is the noted Fred Zinneman himself. This is a crime caper formula movie, and it's enjoyable all through. For me, a highlight was the unexpected ease of the leading actress, Marsha Hunt (who is still alive at 100 years old as I write this). She is a kind of "regular girl" who everyone is meant to like, but she has a natural presence on screen that seems like should have meant something bigger. Maybe that kind of "normalness" isn't quite star material, not bigger than life. But see it for her, at least. Heflin is an acquired taste these days, but an interesting leading man a little different than the rest (he's great in "Martha Ivers" and "Act of Violence"). His role here is meant to be a really determined and incorruptable science guy in a crime lab. There is a little of that show-and-tell that happens in some detective movies of the time, but not too much to make it lag. The plot owes something to gangster films, where the big crime guy has the D.A. in his pocket. But this same man is also in love (or pretends to be) with the Hunt character. It's all in good entertainment fun, however, nothing too thrilling, and nothing too corny or cheap either. Back to Zinneman. This is his first feature film direction. The snappy, smart construction might be a sign of things to come, once he gets meatier material. Interesting!
There might be little to recommend this movie beyond a look at Van Heflin in a constrained early role. Oh, and that the director is the noted Fred Zinneman himself. This is a crime caper formula movie, and it's enjoyable all through. For me, a highlight was the unexpected ease of the leading actress, Marsha Hunt (who is still alive at 100 years old as I write this). She is a kind of "regular girl" who everyone is meant to like, but she has a natural presence on screen that seems like should have meant something bigger. Maybe that kind of "normalness" isn't quite star material, not bigger than life. But see it for her, at least. Heflin is an acquired taste these days, but an interesting leading man a little different than the rest (he's great in "Martha Ivers" and "Act of Violence"). His role here is meant to be a really determined and incorruptable science guy in a crime lab. There is a little of that show-and-tell that happens in some detective movies of the time, but not too much to make it lag. The plot owes something to gangster films, where the big crime guy has the D.A. in his pocket. But this same man is also in love (or pretends to be) with the Hunt character. It's all in good entertainment fun, however, nothing too thrilling, and nothing too corny or cheap either. Back to Zinneman. This is his first feature film direction. The snappy, smart construction might be a sign of things to come, once he gets meatier material. Interesting!
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- Jun 20, 2018
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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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