Secret Agent X-9 (1937)

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Country: USA
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Release: 1937-04-12
Director: Ford Beebe , Clifford Smith
Writers: Charles Flanders , Wyndham Gittens , Norman S. Hall , Leslie Swabacker
Language: English
Stars: Scott Kolk (1905–1993) , Jean Rogers , David Oliver , Monte Blue , Henry Brandon , Larry J. Blake , Henry Hunter , George Shelley , Lon Chaney Jr. , Si Jenks
Runtime: 294 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Secret Agent X-9 (United States of America) , Agente Secreto X-9 (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , 国際探偵X9号 (Japan) , Tajni agent X-9 (Slovenia) , Tajni agent X-9 , Secret Agent X-9 , Mystikos praktor X-9 (Greece)
Plot: In Chapter One (Modern Pirates), the G-Men learn that "Brenda", notorious jewel thief, is heading for the United States, to steal the Belgravian crown jewels currently on exhibit. The gems are placed on a ship bound for Belgravia, the guard is murdered and the jewels stolen. Secret Agent X-9 trails Blackstone, one of the gang, who hides the gems in a safe deposit vault of a bank. He takes the bank receipt to an art shop, where Marker, an accomplice, conceals it between an oil painting and its frame. X-9 arrests Blackstone and pursues Marker, and leaps into the speedboat Marker is getting away in. The speedboat crashes in to a buoy...see Chapter Two at this theatre next week. Shara Graustark) and Baron Michael Karsten, embassy attaché responsible for the jewels, show up next week and the remaining chapters deal with the recovery of the jewels and the unmasking of the mysterious "Brenda". Charters 9 through 12 find Brenda masquerading as the Baron and this complicates things for X-9 and, of course, the Baron.
IMDB:tt0029530