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Just Off Broadway

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Just Off Broadway
Directed byHerbert I. Leeds
Written byBrett Halliday
Jo Eisinger
Screenplay byArnaud d'Usseau
Produced bySol M. Wurtzel
StarringLloyd Nolan
Marjorie Weaver
Phil Silvers
CinematographyLucien N. Andriot
Edited byLouis R. Loeffler
Music byDavid Raksin
Distributed byTwentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Release date
  • September 25, 1942 (1942-09-25)
Running time
65 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Just Off Broadway is a 1942 Drama directed by Herbert I. Leeds, starring Lloyd Nolan and Marjorie Weaver. This is the sixth of a series of seven that Lloyd Nolan played Michael Shayne for Twentieth Century Fox films. Hugh Beaumont portrayed Shayne in five more films from Producers Releasing Corporation.

Plot

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Michael Shayne, a private investigator, flees from jury duty to prove the defendant's guilt. He and Judy Taylor, a reporter, begin looking into the suspect's alibis and discover that in addition to the murder he stands trial for, the man has also killed two others. Afterward, the detective is jailed for 60 days for defecting from the jury.[1]

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ "Just off Broadway (1942) - Herbert I. Leeds | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie".
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