Chick Carter, Detective (1946)
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That dependable sleuth of pulp fiction fame, Nick Carter, apparently had an equally stalwart son. Chick Carter, Boy Detective did his sleuthing on radio before Columbia producer Sam Katzman brought him to the screen in Chick Carter, Detective. The juvenile hero of the radio waves had underwent certain changes in order for grown-up actor Lyle Talbot to portray him. Talbot's Chick Carter, however, remained strangely inactive in his own serial, allowing crusading reporter Rusty Farrell (Douglas V. Fowley) to perform most of the necessary derring-do. As plainly told as the title would suggest, Chick Carter, Detective was more or less a straightforward crime melodrama that eschewed the usual ray guns, invisibility inventions, and other paraphernalia of the genre. Former MGM starlet Pamela Blake did some snooping of her own as a rival detective, and a gangster bearing the unfortunate name of Nick Polio (George Meeker) indulged in a bit of insurance fraud on behalf of Charles King. With only two bona fide cliffhanger endings, Chick Carter, Detective found little favor with the small fry, its target audience. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Charles King - Joe Carney
- Pamela Blake - Ellen Dale
- Julie Gibson - Sherry marvin
- George Meeker - Nick Pollo
- Leonard Penn - Vasky
- Douglas Fowley - Rusty Farrell
- Roy Acuff - Spud Warner
- Joel Friedkin - Jules Hoyt
- Jack Ingram - Mack
- Eddie Parker - Frank Sharp
- Lyle Talbot - Chick Carter
- Robert Elliott - Dan Rankin
- Director(s):
- Derwin M. Abrahams
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