In a cheap hotel room in New York City Jelke shoots gangster Joe Wells, takes a package from his pocket and flees.Wells staggers into an alley. On her way to her apartment above a wax ...
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| William Gargan | ... | Pete Willis | |
| Ann Savage | ... | Sue Gallagher | |
| Leo Gorcey | ... | Clutch Tracy | |
| George Zucco | ... | Jelke | |
| Paul Hurst | ... | Murphy | |
| Don Beddoe | ... | Detective Lt. Max Hurley | |
| Charles Halton | ... | Henry Miggs | |
| George E. Stone | ... | Joe Wells | |
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In a cheap hotel room in New York City Jelke shoots gangster Joe Wells, takes a package from his pocket and flees.Wells staggers into an alley. On her way to her apartment above a wax museum, Sue Gallagher, a reporter for the Chronicle, finds Wells' body and hides his corpse among the wax-figures in the museum and calls her paper to send a photographer so she can get a scoop on the killing of Wells, who had a $5,000 reward for his capture, dead or alive. Meanwhile, Henry Miggs, the museum owner find the body and is ready to call the police but his handyman, Clutch Tracy tells him to conceal it and avoid suspicion. From this point on it is a game of where-is-the-body....and the stolen South American diamonds Wells was carrying. Written by O2D
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WHO'S GOT THE BODY! WHOSE BODY IS IT! (original poster-all caps) See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
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27 July 1945 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film. See more »Quotes
Detective Lt. Max Hurley: Everybody knows everything around here but me. I'm just a detective.See more »
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There isn't much to say about this one. It involves a body (which should be decomposing) being dragged around by a series of people. There are a couple of reporters who use absolutely no common sense in the process of trying to use the body to get a scoop. There's Leo Gorcey, playing the Bowery Boys character, with the malapropisms and the general insensitivity. George Zucco is running around, trying to get his hands on the body. Keeping a low profile probably would have protected him, but this doesn't occur to him. Everything is silly and far fetched and probably played well in a theatre on Saturday afternoon as a bit of escapist drivel in the forties.