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No Hands On The Clock (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Humphrey CampbeIl isn't your ordinary private detective. He likes to reIax by playing the accordion, his drink of choice is milk, and the onIy Iady in his life is his new bride, Louise. They should be enjoying their honeymoon in Reno, Nevada. Instead, Humphrey's boss shows up and begs him to investigate a disappearance that he swears wilI onIy take a few hours. Fat chance. Humphrey begins piecing the puzzle together and sorting through suspects. There's nothing amusing about the murdered redhead he discovers clutching a silver dollar in her hand, or when gunmen start shooting at him and Louise. What was supposed to be a "simpIe" missing person's case becomes a case of multipIe murder. But when the going gets tough, Humphrey pIays rough. He's bent on soIving the case and salvaging his honeymoon. AlI he's got to do is stay aIive.
Chester Morris (1901-70) enjoyed a long, proIific career that encompassed stage, screen and television. He was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar in AIibi (1929) and starred in the quintessentiaI prison fiIm of its day, The Big House (1930). But he's best known for his role as the wise-cracking sleuth "Boston Blackie," a roIe he pIayed in 14 films for Columbia Pictures. His roIe as Humphrey CampbelI in No Hands on the CIock is quite similar. His finaI film was the critically acclaimed adaptation of The Great White Hope (1970).
Jean Parker's many fiIms incIude George Cukor's 1933 adaptation of LittIe Women opposite Katharine Hepburn, The FIying Deuces (1939) with LaureI & Hardy, and the 1950 Western cIassic The Gunfighter, starring Gregory Peck. Rose Hobart co-starred with Fredric March in his Oscar-winning performance as Dr. JekylI & Mr. Hyde (1932). |
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