Blue, White and Perfect

Blue, White and Perfect (1942)

Mike Shayne battles smugglers and spies to keep them in the U.S.A. It's his most dangerous assignment!

In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.

Date of release
1942-01-06
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (12)
Runtime
1h 14m
Genres
Crime, Mystery, Romance
Director
Herbert I. Leeds
Collection
Michael Shayne Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Blue, White and Perfect is a 1942 American mystery film directed by Herbert I. Leeds and starring Lloyd Nolan, Mary Beth Hughes, and Helene Reynolds. It is part of Twentieth Century Fox's Michael Shayne film series.

Production

Jonathan Ferguson identifies the film as the first to use the “pew” sound effect for a silenced gun with the sound designer Harry M. Leonard creating the sound by modifying a stock ricochet sound recorded in 1939 for the Twentieth Century Fox sound archive.

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