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Kid Glove Killer (1942)
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April 1942 (USA)
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First feature film from director Fred Zinneman is a snappy little "B" feature that features Van Heflin...
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One of my favorite B-films from the '40s...nice cast...
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(Complete credited cast) | Van Heflin | ... | Gordon McKay |
 | Marsha Hunt | ... | Jane Mitchell |
| Lee Bowman | ... | Gerald I. Ladimer |
| Samuel S. Hinds | ... | Mayor Daniels |
| Cliff Clark | ... | Captain Lynch |
| Eddie Quillan | ... | Eddie Wright |
| John Litel | ... | Matty |
| Cathy Lewis | ... | Bessie Wright (as Catherine Lewis) |
| Nella Walker | ... | Mrs. Daniels |
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74 min
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Some cast members in studio records/casting call lists did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their character names, if any): Connie Gilchrist (Mrs. Harrison Chetwode), Naomi Childers (Miss Huser), Mary Currier (Manager), Charles Wagenheim (Martin), 'Florence Wright' (Saleslady), Harry Strang and Ted Oliver. Childers was apparently replaced by May McAvoy.
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Follows A Crime Does Not Pay Subject: They're Always Caught (1938)
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Everything about KID GLOVE KILLER is extremely dated. And yet it's fun to watch VAN HEFLIN and MARSHA HUNT go about solving a crime using old techniques and spouting a lot of artificial dialog, 1940s style.
Both of them also smoke frequently. "Match me," becomes a standard line. A cast of standard MGM B-players keeps things going nicely as Heflin and Marsh investigate the murder of a politician, when all the time we know who the killer is--LEE BOWMAN. Bowman is one of those actors who never quite made it to big time stardom, but he's completely at home here in the role of a ruthless heel.
All of the suspense in a story of this kind lies in wondering how the killer will be caught--since he's very manipulative and very cunning. His charm makes his criminal nature very deceptive to both Bowman and Hunt.
Favorite line: "Just bury me with one of your swell hamburgers on my chest." Reply: "With onions?"
If you watch carefully, you can spot BOBBY BLAKE as a youngster listening to a car radio and AVA GARDNER as a car-hop waitress.
This one, and GRAND CENTRAL MURDER made the same year, are well worth watching and nicely directed by Fred Zinnemann who later went on to A-film assignments.