Blonde for a Day (1946)

5.8/10 • 68 min • Mystery Crime

Overview

Newspaper reporter Tim Rourke keeps writing articles that attack the police department for its failure to solve a chain of murders, which nearly leads to the reporter's death. He calls in private detective Michael Shayne, who turns up a blonde and a blackmailer.

Cast

Hugh Beaumont

Kathryn Adams

Phyllis Hamilton

Cy Kendall

Inspector Pete Rafferty

Marjorie Hoshelle

Frank Ferguson

Richard Fraser

Dillingham 'Dilly' Smith

Paul Bryar

Mauritz Hugo

Charles Cahill Wilson

Chief of Police Will Gentry (as Charles Wilson)

Claire Rochelle

Minerva Dickens

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