Jim Hanvey, Detective

1937
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1h 11m

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Tom Brown, Lucie Kaye, and Guy Kibbee in Jim Hanvey, Detective (1937)

Jim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance company hires him to find a missing emerald so they won't have to pay out the $100,000 for wh... Read allJim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance company hires him to find a missing emerald so they won't have to pay out the $100,000 for which the jewel is insured. It doesn't take him long to find the emerald, but he discovers t... Read allJim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance company hires him to find a missing emerald so they won't have to pay out the $100,000 for which the jewel is insured. It doesn't take him long to find the emerald, but he discovers that finding it was the easy part; the difficult part is getting it back to its rightful ow... Read all

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With nearly 20 minutes arbitrarily removed by Republic Studios Mutilation Team in preparation for its video release in 1952, many of the details of the story become incomprehensible in what seem to be the only surviving prints.

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Edited into Who Dunit Theater: Jim Hanvey Detective (2015)

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6/10

Guy Kibbee as folksy detective

Guy Kibbee is pretty much the whole show in this fast-paced B mystery. The plot involves some stolen pearls, a young couple who want to get married, and a murder. Kibbee looks perfectly comfortable as retired detective Jim Hanvey, famous but reluctant sleuth who takes the case more out of a personal interest in the young people than any urgent desire to solve a mystery.

The supporting cast includes Ed Gargan and Ed Brophy as a couple of shady characters; sadly, they're not as funny a pair as you might expect from those two veteran comic relief specialists. The rather bland sweethearts are played by the mostly forgotten Lucie Kay and Tom Brown.

It's certainly enjoyable enough, especially for fans of Guy Kibbee or cheapie 30s mysteries. However, the low budget really shows, and ultimately this one is not too memorable.