- Country: USA
- Genres: Action, Crime, Drama
- Release: 1939-01-05
- Director: Charles C. Coleman
- Writers: Earle Snell
- Language: English
- Stars: Bruce Cabot , Rita Hayworth , Marc Lawrence , Richard Fiske , Moroni Olsen , Norman Willis
- Runtime: 58 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: Homicide Bureau (United States of America) , La squadra volante (Italy) , Homicide Bureau , Investigação Criminal (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Bureau criminel (France, French Republic)
- Plot: After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide Bureau to clean up all their cases, but without violating the constitutional rights of any suspect. Detective Jim Logan is ordered to meet the incoming new-head of the Police Department lab and internal affairs, J.G. Bliss, and takes an instant dislike to her over her attitude toward criminal's rights. A murder case is turned over to Jim. Chuck Brown, the killer, informs his gang boss, Briggs, that their blackmailer has been killed and Briggs continues with his preparations to ship a cargo of scrap metal metal to foreign war lords to be used for munitions manufacture. Jim arrests Chuck, but if forced by Miss Bliss to release him on grounds of insufficient evidence. In an attempt to force a confession from Chuck, Jim goes to his apartment and, in a scuffle, causes him to fall through a window. The aroused Citizens' League, through its spokesman Henley, press charges against Jim and he is demoted. He continues to investigate and learns of Chuck's connection with a junk dealer's racket. Jamison, a honest junk dealer, is murdered for refusing to ship scrap metal abroad for war purposes and an eye-witness is killed in a supposed hit-and-run accident.
- IMDB:tt0031438
Homicide Bureau Cast · · · ALL
Charles C. Coleman
Director
Rita Hayworth
J.G. Bliss
Bruce Cabot
Jim Logan
Marc Lawrence
Chuck Brown
Richard Fiske
Hank
Moroni Olsen
Captain Haines
Norman Willis
Briggs
Gene Morgan
Blake
Robert Paige
Thurston
Lee Prather
Jamison
Eddie Fetherston
Specks
Stanley Andrews
Police Commissioner
Hooper Atchley
Curtis - Crime Lab Technician
Harry Bernard
Joe
Beatrice Blinn
Secretary
Stanley Brown
Police Photographer
Georgie Cooper
Citizen League Member
Nell Craig
Citizen League Member
Beatrice Curtis
Stewardess
Dick Curtis
Radio Broadcaster (voice)
Joe De Stefani
Miller - the Junk Dealer
George DeNormand
(1903–1976)
Henchman Trigger
Ann Doran
(1911–2000)
Nurse
Lester Dorr
Gangster Shot by Brown
Frank Fanning
Detective
Kit Guard
Henchman at Pier