Jim Hanvey, Detective(1937)
Sly but not slick - Jim Hanvey tops them all! Guy Kibbee ....his most loveable role!
Jim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance company hires him to find a missing emerald so they won't have to pay out the $100,000 for which the jewel is insured. It doesn't take him long to find the emerald, but he discovers that finding it was the easy part; the difficult part is getting it back to its rightful owner, and he winds up involved in a murder in which an innocent man is framed.
Movie: Jim Hanvey, Detective
Top 10 Billed Cast
James Woolford 'Jim' Hanvey
Don Terry
Joan Frost
Adelaide Frost
O. R.Smith
Romo
Mrs. Tom Ellis
Dunn
W. B. Elwood
Herbert Frost
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