The Crimson Key.
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✎ Suggest a correctionA private detective, hired by a jealous wife to watch her husband, tricks a dipsomaniac into confessing three murders.
Larry Morgan is hired by a Mrs. Swann to investigate her husband, who is found dead in the studio of Peter Vandaman. Morgan encounters a receptionist, Miss Phillips, who was in love with Swann, and a man, Steven Loring, who suspected his wife and Swann of having an affair. Loring's alcoholic wife, Margaret, mentions a Key Club with a special red key to a locker, but before he can check it out, Mrs Swann is murdered. Morgan is beaten by thugs and nearly drugged by a woman named Heidi.
Larry Morgan is hired by a Mrs. Swann to investigate her husband, who is found dead in the studio of Peter Vandaman. Morgan encounters a receptionist, Miss Phillips, who was in love with Swann, and a man, Steven Loring, who suspected his wife and Swann of having an affair. Loring's alcoholic wife, Margaret, mentions a Key Club with a special red key to a locker, but before he can check it out, Mrs Swann is murdered. Morgan is beaten by thugs and nearly drugged by a woman named Heidi.
Credits
- Cast
- Kent Taylor, Doris Dowling
Copyright
© Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 3Jul47; LP1391.
Complete catalog record
THE CRIMSON KEY. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1947. Presented by Sol M. Wurtzel. 76 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. Summary: A private detective, hired by a jealous wife to watch her husband, tricks a dipsomaniac into confessing three murders. Credits: Associate producer, Howard Sheehan; director, Eugene Forde; original story and screenplay, Irving Elman; music score, Dale Butts; music director, Morton Scott; film editor, Frank Baldridge. Cast: Kent Taylor, Doris Dowling, Dennis Hoey. © Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 3Jul47; LP1391.
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