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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
Albert Dekker
Johnny Fletcher
George Chandler
Roomer (uncredited)
Richard Arlen
Himself (uncredited)
Evelyn Ankers
Janet Morgan
Joe DeRita
Fox
Frank Fenton
Horatio Vedder
Archie Twitchell
Murdock (as Michael Branden)
David Gorcey
Eddie
John Eldredge
John Holterman
Selmer Jackson
Walter Winslow
Emmett Vogan
Desk Clerk
Bernard Gorcey
Little Man (uncredited)
Frank Moran
Listener to Sam's Story (uncredited)
Hugh Prosser
Swede (uncredited)
Sailor Vincent
Walter Soderling
Marjorie Manners
Sammy Stein
Alan Ward
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