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Bookmark this pageNick Carter – Master Detective (1939)
Director: Jacques Tourneur
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From Time Out Film Guide
The first of MGM's three Nick Carter B movies, in which he (not the period creation but a private eye in the contemporary mould) investigates espionage in an aircraft factory. Tourneur's second film in Hollywood, it's briskly and competently done, but the best thing about it is Donald Meek's performance as Bartholomew the Bee Man, a mousy little apiculturist who fancies himself as a private eye, keeps following Nick Carter (Pidgeon) around, and more than once proves to be the man on the spot.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Producer: Lucien Hubbard
Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Rita Johnson, Henry Hull, Donald Meek, Stanley Ridges, Milburn Stone, Sterling Holloway, Martin Kosleck, Frank Faylen full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 59 mins
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