| Shadow of Suspicion | |
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| Directed by | William Beaudine |
| Written by | |
| Produced by | A.W. Hackel |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Marcel Le Picard |
| Edited by | |
| Music by | Lee Zahler |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Monogram Pictures |
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Running time | 68 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Shadow of Suspicion is a 1944 American comedy crime film directed by William Beaudine and starring Marjorie Weaver, Peter Cookson and Tim Ryan. [1]
A bank is to receive a valuable necklace. A suspicious con man type shows up at the bank and works his way into an office at the bank. He immediately charms the bank presidents secretary. It’s hard to tell who the con man is working for and he changes his name several times. The bank president turns out to be the thief and hides the necklace into a pair of bronze shoes that he gives his secretary to take to his “mother” who is really an unscrupulous old lady diamond cutter and her cohorts. The con man turns out to be an honest guy working for the police.
William Washington Beaudine was an American film director. He was one of Hollywood's most prolific directors, turning out films in remarkable numbers and in a wide variety of genres.
Billy the Kid Versus Dracula is a 1966 American horror Western film directed by William Beaudine. The film is about Billy the Kid trying to save his fiancée from Dracula. The film was originally released as part of a double feature along with Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter in 1966. Both films were shot in eight days at Corriganville Movie Ranch and Paramount Studios in mid-1965; both were the final feature films of director Beaudine. The films were produced by television producer Carroll Case for Joseph E. Levine.
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Invisible Stripes is a 1939 Warner Bros. crime film starring George Raft as a gangster unable to go straight after returning home from prison. The movie was directed by Lloyd Bacon and also features William Holden, Jane Bryan and Humphrey Bogart. The screenplay by Warren Duff was based on the novel of the same title by Warden Lewis E. Lawes, a fervent crusader for prison reform, as adapted by Jonathan Finn.
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Adventures of Kitty O'Day is a 1945 American comedy mystery film directed by William Beaudine and starring Jean Parker, Peter Cookson and Tim Ryan. It was a sequel to the 1944 film Detective Kitty O'Day. The two films were an attempt to create a new detective series but no further films were made. A third film, Fashion Model, also directed by Beaudine, was made using a similar formula but with another actress playing a heroine with a different name.
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Trail of the Yukon is a 1949 American Northern film directed by William Beaudine and starring Kirby Grant, Suzanne Dalbert and Bill Edwards. It was based on a novel by James Oliver Curwood about a North-West Mounted Police officer and his faithful German Shepherd dog Chinook. It is part of the Northern genre. The film was popular, and inspired Monogram to make a series of nine further films starring Grant and Chinook.
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