Find the Blackmailer (1943)

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Country: USA
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Release: 1943-11-06
Director: D. Ross Lederman
Writers: Robert E. Kent , G.T. Fleming-Roberts
Language: English
Stars: Jerome Cowan , Faye Emerson , Gene Lockhart (1891–1957) , Marjorie Hoshelle , Robert Kent , Wade Boteler , John Harmon , Bradley Page , Lou Lubin , Ralph Peters
Runtime: 55 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Find the Blackmailer , Find the Blackmailer (United Kingdom) , Find the Blackmailer (United States of America) , Crimen sin rastro (Mexico)
Plot: John Rhodes (Gene Lockhart)hires private detective D. L. Trees (Jerome Cowan)to track down a talking blackbird owned by Fred Molner, who uses the bird as a means of blackmailing Rhodes. Molner has taught the bird to repeat "Don't kill me, Rhodes" in the event he is murdered by a member of a gambling syndicate he has defrauded. Going to Molner's apartment, Trees finds him murdered and his bodyguard, Ray Hickey (John Harmon), unconscious. Clues lead Trees to Mona Vance (Faye Emerson, Molner's girlfriend, who is involved with Mark Harper (Robert Kent, presumably her lawyer.
IMDB:tt0035879