Midnight Manhunt (1945)

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Country: USA
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Release: 1945-07-27
Director: William C. Thomas
Writers: David Lang
Language: Spanish | English
Stars: William Gargan , Ann Savage , Leo Gorcey , George Zucco , Paul Hurst , Don Beddoe , Charles Halton , George E. Stone (I) (1903–1967) , Robert Barron , Martin Cichy
Runtime: 64 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Midnight Manhunt (United Kingdom) , Hard to Handle (United States of America) , El cadáver secuestrado (Mexico) , One Exciting Night (United States of America) , One Dangerous Night (United States of America) , O Morto Sequestrado (Brazil) , Cheezit, the Corpse (United States of America) , Cheeze It, Corpse (United States of America) , Shake Hands with Murder (United States of America) , Midnight Manhunt (United States of America) , Midnight Manhunt
Plot: In a cheap hotel room in New York City Jelke shoots gangster Joe Wells, takes a package from his pocket and flees.Wells staggers into an alley. On her way to her apartment above a wax museum, Sue Gallagher, a reporter for the Chronicle, finds Wells' body and hides his corpse among the wax-figures in the museum and calls her paper to send a photographer so she can get a scoop on the killing of Wells, who had a $5,000 reward for his capture, dead or alive. Meanwhile, Henry Miggs, the museum owner find the body and is ready to call the police but his handyman, Clutch Tracy tells him to conceal it and avoid suspicion. From this point on it is a game of where-is-the-body....and the stolen South American diamonds Wells was carrying.
IMDB:tt0037960