Blonde for a Day (1946)
MICHAEL SHANE, DETECTIVE STEPS OUT WITH A BLONDE...AND GETS KNOCKED FOR A LOOP BY A BRUNETTE!
Newspaper reporter Tim Rourke keeps writing articles that attack the police department for its failure to solve a chain of murders, which nearly leads to the reporter's death. He calls in private detective Michael Shayne, who turns up a blonde and a blackmailer.
- Date of release
- 1946-06-10
- TMDB
- 5.8 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 1h 8m
- Genres
- Mystery, Crime
- Director
- Sam Newfield
- Collection
- Michael Shayne Collection
Casting
- Hugh Beaumont — Michael Shayne
- Kathryn Adams — Phyllis Hamilton
- Cy Kendall — Inspector Pete Rafferty
- Marjorie Hoshelle — Helen Porter
- Frank Ferguson — Walter Bronson
- Richard Fraser — Dillingham 'Dilly' Smith
- Paul Bryar — Tim Rourke
- Mauritz Hugo — Hank Brenner
- Charles Cahill Wilson — Chief of Police Will Gentry (as Charles Wilson)
- Sonia Sorel — Muriel Bronson
- Claire Rochelle — Minerva Dickens
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