Murder Is My Business (1946)
TWO DAZZLING DARLINGS SLUG IT OUT... and MIKE'S caught in the middle again!
Michael Shayne is a private detective who is disliked greatly by Pete Rafferty, local chief of police detectives. Rafferty notifies the newspaper press that he is going to close Shayne's agency, just as Michael is about to be hired by the wealthy Eleanor Ramsey, who is being blackmailed. She is the stepmother of what she considers to be two grown-up brats, Dorothy and Ernest, and she considers their father to be of little value to the world himself. They all conspire to get their hands on her money, even to the extent of attempting to hire Shayne to frame an insurance robbery. Mrs. Ramsey is murdered, and Rafferty is trying to pin the killing on Shayne, despite the fact that suspicion points to Buell Renslow, brother of the slain woman. Shayne's secretary, the fetching Phyllis Hamilton, decides to do a little detective work to help her boss.
- Date of release
- 1946-03-07
- TMDB
- 7.7 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 1h 4m
- Genres
- Crime, Mystery, Action
- Director
- Sam Newfield
- Collection
- Michael Shayne Collection
Casting
- Hugh Beaumont — Michael Shayne
- Cheryl Walker — Phyllis Hamilton
- Lyle Talbot — Buell Renslow
- George Meeker — Carl Meldrum
- Pierre Watkin — Arnold Ramsey
- Richard Keene — Tim Rourke
- David Reed — Ernest Ramsey
- Carol Andrews — Mona Tabor
- Julia McMillan — Dorothy Ramsey
- Helene Heigh — Eleanor Ramsey
- Ralph Dunn — Pete Rafferty
- Parker Garvie — Joe Darnell
Interesting facts
Murder Is My Business is a 1946 American action film directed by Sam Newfield and written by Fred Myton. It is based on the 1940 novel The Uncomplaining Corpses by Brett Halliday. The film stars Hugh Beaumont, Cheryl Walker, Lyle Talbot, George Meeker, Pierre Watkin, and Richard Keene. The film was released on March 7, 1946, by Producers Releasing Corporation.
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