Detective Kitty O'Day
Feature film · 59 min · dir. William Beaudine
HELP! HELP! MURDER!...and YOU'RE THE VICTIM!
- Comedy
- Mystery
- Romance
Synopsis
Convinced that she has what it takes to be a detective, inquisitive secretary Kitty O'Day gets her chance to put her sleuthing skills to the test when her investment broker boss is mysteriously murdered. But Kitty's investigation hits a snag when Inspector Miles Clancy begins to suspect that she's the culprit.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- William Beaudine
- Writer
- Tim Ryan
- Studio
- Monogram Pictures
- Released
- 1944-05-13
- Running time
- 59 minutes
Cast & crew
William Beaudine Director
Jean Parker
Peter Cookson
Tim Ryan
Veda Ann Borg
Edward Gargan
Douglas Fowley
Pat Gleason
Olaf Hytten
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Screwball Slapstick Comedy Is Right. · bobsluckycat · 2013-11-12
This was the first of probably four Kitty O'Day films from mid-1944 and mid-1945. The first two starred Jean Parker as Kitty O'Day and second two Majorie Weaver for Monogram Pictures. Lindsley Parsons a top producer at Monogram produced the first two with all the production values the "B" budget would allow. Tim Ryan had a hand in writing all four films. Tim Ryan and Edward Gargan are the top bananas/co-stars as two bumbling cops and the piece moves along at top speed with laughs, gags and punch lines flying all over the place. If it is faintly familiar it's because it is cut from the same…
★★★ · Okay for what it is · Mieujhur · 2016-12-08
Enjoyable detective comedy,but the slapstick was a little too broad for me. Movements were a bit too exaggerated and repetitious, but I don't know if this was the first and improvements developed over time. The plotline was fun and I do want to see the others mention by other reviewers.
★★★ · Not Bad · billbarstad · 2016-12-10
Before there was a Lucille Ball there was Jean Parker. Really, the resemblance is uncanny. Lucy, however, was a dramatic actress in the movies. This is a fast moving, totally comedic murder mystery. The bad guy isn’t mentioned or shown until near the end of the film. That really doesn’t matter much. I would have liked more depth in the lead characters. I downloaded the 433MB MPEG4 file. Good print, but not sharp. Some missing frames. The audio was fine.
★ · Pinball Comedy · Poohbah70 · 2019-06-15
You've got to like pinball comedies - those where the heroine talks faster than you can listen, and talks like that for everyone else too. The heroine also pushes everyone around - her boyfriend, the police, the possible suspects, the taxi driver, the servants - it never ends. Jean Parker is the hyperactive heroine, Kitty O'Day - shes hard to take - she's shrill, somewhat obnoxious, and always right in an annoying way. The rest of the cast that gets pushed around include Kitty's boyfriend, Peter Cookson (Johnny Jones), Inspector Clancy (Tim Ryan, who co-wrote this farce), Ed Gargan (Mike the…
