Blonde for a Day
MICHAEL SHANE, DETECTIVE STEPS OUT WITH A BLONDE...AND GETS KNOCKED FOR A LOOP BY A BRUNETTE!
1946 · 1h 8m · Approved
Crime, Mystery
Directed by
Sam Newfield
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Blonde for a Day
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Sam Newfield Director
- Hugh Beaumont as Michael Shayne
- Kathryn Adams as Phyllis Hamilton
- Cy Kendall as Inspector Pete Rafferty
- Marjorie Hoshelle as Helen Porter
- Frank Ferguson as Walter Bronson
- Richard Fraser as Dillingham 'Dilly' Smith
- Paul Bryar as Tim Rourke
- Mauritz Hugo as Hank Brenner
- Charles Cahill Wilson as Chief of Police Will Gentry (as Charles Wilson)
- Sonia Sorel as Muriel Bronson
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