Just Off Broadway

For the 1929 film, see Just Off Broadway (1929 film).

Just Off Broadway
Directed by	Herbert I. Leeds
Written by	Brett Halliday Jo Eisinger
Screenplay by	Arnaud d'Usseau
Produced by	Sol M. Wurtzel
Starring	Lloyd Nolan Marjorie Weaver Phil Silvers
Cinematography	Lucien N. Andriot
Edited by	Louis R. Loeffler
Music by	David Raksin
Distributed by	Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Release date	September 25, 1942 (1942-09-25)
Running time	65 min.
Country	United States
Language	English

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 summary

Michael Shayne (Lloyd Nolan), a private investigator, flees from jury duty to prove the defendant's guilt. He and his girlfriend Judy Taylor (Marjorie Weaver), 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 of 60 days for defecting from the jury.

Cast

• Lloyd Nolan as Michael Shayne
• Marjorie Weaver as Judy Taylor
• Phil Silvers as Roy Higgins
• Janis Carter as Lillian Hubbard
• Richard Derr as John Logan, Defense Attorney
• Joan Valerie as Rita Darling
• Don Costello as George Dolphin
• Chester Clute as Sperty, Juror-Roommate
• Francis Pierlot as Sidney Arno, Jeweler
• Grant Richards as District Attorney John F. McGonagle
• George M. Carleton as Judge Robert Walters
• Alexander Lockwood as Count Edmond Telmachio
• William Haade as Warehouse Watchman
• Leyland Hodgson as Henry Randolph, Butler
• Oscar O'Shea as Pop, Stage Door Watchman

External links

• Just Off Broadway at IMDb
• Just Off Broadway at AllMovie
• Just Off Broadway at the TCM Movie Database
• Just Off Broadway at the American Film Institute Catalog