The Phantom of 42nd Street

The Phantom of 42nd Street
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Directed by	Albert Herman
Produced by	Albert Herman (producer) Martin Mooney (associate producer)
Written by	Jack Harvey (novel) Milton Raison (novel and screenplay)
Starring	Dave O'Brien Kay Aldridge
Music by	Karl Hajos Walter Greene
Cinematography	James S. Brown Jr.
Editing by	Hugh Winn
Release date(s)	2 May 1945
Running time	58 minutes
Country	USA
Language	English

The Phantom of 42nd Street is a 1945 American film directed by Albert Herman.

Plot summary

An actor is killed during the performance of a play while critic Tony Woolrich (Dave O'Brien) is attending. Initially Woolrich is reluctant to investigate, even though he's encouraged to by his friend Romeo(Frank Jenks) , who is also the taxi driver who brought him to the show, and acts as a sort of sidekick throughout the story. Later Tony is chewed out by his editor for not investigating when he happened to be at the scene of the crime, and so he takes an initially reluctant interest. Tony becomes more involved in the investigation when there is another murder, and when Claudia Moore (Kay Aldridge, in her last movie role), the girl he loves, is suspected, and is also possibly threatened by the killer.

Cast

• Dave O'Brien
• Kay Aldridge
• Alan Mowbray
• Frank Jenks
• Edythe Elliott
• Jack Mulhall
• Vera Marshe
• Stanley Price
• John Crawford
• Cyril Delevanti
• Paul Power

External links

• The Phantom of 42nd Street at the Internet Movie Database
• The Phantom of 42nd Street is available for free download at the Internet Archive [more]