Who Killed Gail Preston? | |
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Directed by | Leon Barsha |
Screenplay by | Robert Kent |
Produced by | Ralph Cohn |
Starring | Don Terry Rita Hayworth Robert Paige |
Cinematography | Henry Freulich |
Edited by | Byron Robinson |
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Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 61 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Who Killed Gail Preston? is a 1938 American crime film directed by Leon Barsha and starring Don Terry, Rita Hayworth, and Robert Paige. [1]
When singer Gail Preston is murdered at the Swing Swing Club, inspector Tom Kellogg takes the case and finds that many at the club disliked the victim. Suspicion at first falls on a man named Owen, but when is also found dead, bandleader Swing Traynor becomes the prime suspect. Discovering that Preston was killed by a gun rigged to a spotlight, Kellogg gathers all the suspects in a room and trains the spotlight on each.