Who Killed Gail Preston?
1938 · Movie · 61 min. · United States
Tempermental torch singer Gail Preston performs at the Swing Swing Club, a ritzy nightclub decorated in a prison theme, at which patrons have the choice of sitting in cells that line the room or at tables. Gail is not well-liked by her co-workers, so when she is murdered one night during a performance, Inspector Kellogg and his hapless assistant, Cliff Connolly, are faced with many suspects. The first suspect is Mr. Owen, who commits suicide by jumping off a tall building. Next, orchestra leader Swing Traynor is arrested, despite the best efforts of Ann Bishop, who is secretly married to Traynor, to prevent it. A break in the case finally comes when Kellogg discovers that the murder was committed by someone who attached a gun to one of the nightclub spotlights. To determine the murderer, Kellogg convenes all those present at the club on the night of Gail's murder and, one by one, shines the spotlight on them until the killer confesses out of terror of being killed in the same manner as Gail.
Direction Leon Barsha
Cast Don Terry · Rita Hayworth · Robert Paige · Wyn Cahoon · Gene Morgan · Arthur Loft · Marc Lawrence · John Gallaudet · John Graham Spacey · Eddie Fetherston · James Millican · Mildred Gover · Dwight Frye · John Dilson · William Irving
Soundtrack Gloria Franklin · Morris Stoloff · Milton Drake · Howard Jackson · Ben Oakland
Screenplay Robert Kent · Henry Taylor · Fred Pedersen
Cinematography Henry Freulich
Original title Who Killed Gail Preston?
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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