Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher
(1943)

Radio's crack-brain criminologist stands headquarters on its head in his first raid on screen gangsters!

Released: 1943-01-29

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Cosmo Jones, a correspondence-school detective from a small town, comes to the big city to offer his services to the police. He happens by where a gangster is killed by an opposing gang. Socialite Phyllis Blake is running around with gang member Tom and the opposing gang plan on kidnapping her. Cosmo is with Sergeant Flanagan when the attempt is made in front of a night club, where a bystander is seriously wounded in the gun-battle. Police Chief Murphy blames Flanagan for the shooting and demotes him. Cosmo, with the aid of a porter, Eustace and Flanagan's fiancée, Susan, tries to find the killer. Phyllis is finally kidnapped and Cosmo decides the act was committed by one of the two gangs. He has her father place an ad in the newspaper that contact has been made with the kidnappers. Each gang thinks the other is pulling a double cross, and one gang wipes out the other.

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Frank Graham

as Cosmo Jones

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Edgar Kennedy

as Police Chief Murphy

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Gale Storm

as Susan Fleming

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Richard Cromwell

as Sgt. Pat Flanagan

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Mantan Moreland

as Eustace Smith

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Gwen Kenyon

as Phyllis Blake

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Herbert Rawlinson

as Mr. James J. Blake

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Tris Coffin

as Jake Pelotti

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Charles Jordan

as Biff Garr

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Vince Barnett

as Henchman 'Gimp'

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Emmett Vogan

as Police Commissioner Gould

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Maxine Leslie

as Mrs. Jake Pelotti

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Mauritz Hugo

as Tony Sandol - Gangster

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Gil Stanley

as Tommy Hayes - Informant (uncredited)

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Sam Bernard

as Gangster

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