Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher (1943)
1h 2m
Running Time
January 29, 1943Release Date
Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher (1943)
1h 2m
Running Time
January 29, 1943Release Date
Plot.
Cosmo Jones, a correspondence-school detective from a small town, comes to the big city to offer his services to the police. He happens by where a gangster is killed by an opposing gang. Socialite Phyllis Blake is running around with gang member Tom and the opposing gang plan on kidnapping her. Cosmo is with Sergeant Flanagan when the attempt is made in front of a night club, where a bystander is seriously wounded in the gun-battle. Police Chief Murphy blames Flanagan for the shooting and demotes him. Cosmo, with the aid of a porter, Eustace and Flanagan's fiancée, Susan, tries to find the killer. Phyllis is finally kidnapped and Cosmo decides the act was committed by one of the two gangs. He has her father place an ad in the newspaper that contact has been made with the kidnappers. Each gang thinks the other is pulling a double cross, and one gang wipes out the other.
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Cast & Crew.
Frank Graham
Professor Cosmo Jones
Edgar Kennedy
Police Chief Murphy
Gale Storm
Susan Fleming
Richard Cromwell
Police Sergeant Pat Flanagan
Mantan Moreland
Eustace Smith
Gwen Kenyon
Phyllis Blake
Herbert Rawlinson
Mr. James J. Blake
Tris Coffin
Jake Pelotti
Charles Jordan
Biff Garr
Emmett Vogan
Police Commissioner Gould
Vince Barnett
Henchman 'Gimp'
Maxine Leslie
Mrs. Jake Pelotti
James Tinling
Director
Mauritz Hugo
Tony Sandol - Gangster
Michael L. Simmons
Writer
Walter Gering
Writer
Gil Stanley
Tommy Hayes - Informant (uncredited)
Sam Bernard
Gangster
Lindsley Parsons
Producer
Mack Stengler
Cinematographer
Carl Pierson
Editor
Edward J. Kay
Music Director
Dave Milton
Art Direction
Media.
Details.
Release DateJanuary 29, 1943
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 2m
Genres
Wiki.
The Crime Smasher is a 1943 American crime comedy film directed by James Tinling and starring Edgar Kennedy, Richard Cromwell and Gale Storm. It is based on the Radio program Cosmo Jones featuring Frank Graham. The film's sets were designed by the art director Dave Milton. It is sometimes alternatively titled Cosmo Jones in the Crime Smasher.