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The French Key
1946, May 18
1h 4m
Private detective Johnny Fletcher and his sidekick Sam Cragg skip out on their rented room, but when they sneak back to retrieve their luggage, they discover a dead body on the bed, holding a gold coin in its hand. Fletcher is told by a coin collector that the piece is an old and valuable Spanish coin, but Fletcher soon begins to suspect that the man is himself involved in the murder. Fletcher's investigation leads to he and Sam getting caught up in a murder and gold smuggling scheme.
Directed by
Walter Colmes
Mike Mazurki
Sam Cragg
Byron Foulger
Peabody
Sailor Vincent
John Eldredge
John Holterman
Bernard Gorcey
Little Man (uncredited)
Evelyn Ankers
Janet Morgan
Joe DeRita
Fox
Archie Twitchell
Murdock (as Michael Branden)
Albert Dekker
Johnny Fletcher
Richard Arlen
Himself (uncredited)
George Chandler
Roomer (uncredited)
Frank Moran
Listener to Sam's Story (uncredited)
Selmer Jackson
Walter Winslow
Marjorie Manners
Frank Fenton
Horatio Vedder
David Gorcey
Eddie
Hugh Prosser
Swede (uncredited)
Walter Soderling
Emmett Vogan
Desk Clerk
Sammy Stein
Alan Ward
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