Nick Carter, Master Detective (1939)
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Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.
- Date of release
- 1939-12-13
- TMDB
- 6.0 / 10 (13)
- Runtime
- 59m
- Genres
- Crime, Mystery
- Director
- Jacques Tourneur
- Collection
- Nick Carter (Walter Pidgeon) Collection
Casting
- Walter Pidgeon — Nicholas 'Nick' Carter, aka Robert Chalmers
- Rita Johnson — Lou Farnsby
- Henry Hull — John A. Keller
- Stanley Ridges — Doctor Frankton (as Stanley C. Ridges)
- Donald Meek — Bartholomew, the bee man
- Addison Richards — Streeter - President of Radex
- Henry Victor — Hammil - tall spy boss
- Milburn Stone — Krebs - 2d hurt worker
- Martin Kosleck — Otto - 3d hurt worker
- Frank Faylen — Pete Foley - 1st pilot
- Sterling Holloway — Bartholomew's Bee Asst.
- Wally Maher — Cliff Parsons - Keller's Pilot & Asst.
Interesting facts
- Box office: $456K
- Budget: $379K
- Earned 1.2× its budget
Nick Carter, Master Detective is a 1939 film directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Walter Pidgeon. It is based original stories created for the screen featuring the Nick Carter character from the long-running literary series.
Production
The aircraft shown in the film is a Ryan ST c/n NC17344. Most of the aerial footage was staged in the studio backlots and incorporated into background scenes.
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