4.6 / 10(9 votes)IMDb19431h 2mUnited States of America

Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher

“Radio's crack-brain criminologist stands headquarters on its head in his first raid on screen gangsters!”

Topics:#police #detective #b movie #sergeant #socialite #porter

Synopsis

Cosmo Jones, a correspondence-school detective from a small town, comes to the big city to offer his services to the police. He happens by where a gangster is killed by an opposing gang. Socialite Phyllis Blake is running around with gang member Tom and the opposing gang plan on kidnapping her. Cosmo is with Sergeant Flanagan when the attempt is made in front of a night club, where a bystander is seriously wounded in the gun-battle. Police Chief Murphy blames Flanagan for the shooting and demotes him. Cosmo, with the aid of a porter, Eustace and Flanagan's fiancée, Susan, tries to find the killer. Phyllis is finally kidnapped and Cosmo decides the act was committed by one of the two gangs. He has her father place an ad in the newspaper that contact has been made with the kidnappers. Each gang thinks the other is pulling a double cross, and one gang wipes out the other.

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Frank Graham

Cosmo Jones

Edgar Kennedy

Police Chief Murphy

Gale Storm

Susan Fleming

Richard Cromwell

Sgt. Pat Flanagan

Mantan Moreland

Eustace Smith

Gwen Kenyon

Phyllis Blake

Herbert Rawlinson

Mr. James J. Blake

Tristram Coffin

Jake Pelotti

Charles Jordan

Biff Garr

Vince Barnett

Henchman 'Gimp'

Emmett Vogan

Police Commissioner Gould

Maxine Leslie

Mrs. Jake Pelotti

Mauritz Hugo

Tony Sandol - Gangster

Gil Stanley

Tommy Hayes - Informant (uncredited)

Uncredited

Sam Bernard

Gangster

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Release History & Theatrical Window

Theatrical Premiere

January 29, 1943

Wide Cinema Exhibition

Key Information & Fast Facts

Director: James Tinling
Screenplay & Story: Michael L. Simmons, Walter Gering
Original Title: Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher
Country of Origin: United States of America
Spoken Languages: English
Runtime: 1h 2m
Production Studios: Monogram Pictures

Creative Leadership & Key Crew

Director

James Tinling

Screenplay & Story

Michael L. Simmons, Walter Gering, Frank Graham

Director of Photography

Mack Stengler

Film Editing

Carl Pierson

Producers

Lindsley Parsons

Department Leadership Roster

James Tinling

Director

Michael L. Simmons

Screenplay

Walter Gering

Screenplay

Lindsley Parsons

Producer

Mack Stengler

Director of Photography

Carl Pierson

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