''Chick Carter, Detective'' is a 1946

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. Columbia could not afford the rights to produce a

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serial so they made ''Chick Carter, Detective'' about his son instead. This was based on the radio series ''

Chick Carter, Boy Detective ''Chick Carter, Boy Detective'' is a 15-minute American old-time radio juvenile crime drama. It was carried on the Mutual Broadcasting System weekday afternoons from July 5, 1943 to July 6, 1945. Premise Chickering "Chick" Carter was the adopted ...

''. A Nick Carter series was being made by MGM. In a "rather strange precedent" for a serial, the title character is rarely involved in the cliffhangers. For example, the first cliffhanger revolves around the reporter Rusty rather than Carter. The film starred

Lyle Talbot Lyle Florenz Talbot (born Lisle Henderson, also credited Lysle Talbot; February 8, 1902 – March 2, 1996) was an American stage, screen and television actor. His career in films spanned three decades, from 1931 to 1960, and he performed on ...

as Chick Carter,

Douglas Fowley Douglas Fowley (born Daniel Vincent Fowley, May 30, 1911 – May 21, 1998) was an American movie and television actor in more than 240 films and dozens of television programs, He is probably best remembered for his role as the frustrated m ...

as Rusty Farrell, Julie Gibson as Sherry Marvin, Pamela Blake as Ellen Dale,

Eddie Acuff Edward DeKalb Acuff (June 3, 1903 – December 17, 1956) was an American stage and film actor. He frequently was cast as a droll comic relief, in the support of the star. His best-known recurring role is that of Mr. Beasley, the postman, in ...

as Spud Warner, and Robert Elliott as Dan Rankin.

Plot

Detective Chick Carter (Lyle Talbot) finds himself in a complex case when Sherry Martin (Julie Gibson), a singer at the Century Club, reports the robbery of the famous Blue Diamond, owned by Joe Carney (Charles King), the owner of the nightclub. Joe planned the theft in order to pay a debt to Nick Pollo (George Meeker) with the $100,000 insurance money he would collect. Sherry double-crossed Joe by wearing an imitation one, while she threw the real one, hidden in a cotton snowball, to Nick during the floor show. But Spud Warner (Eddie Acuff), a newspaper photographer, there with newspaper reporter Rusty Farrell (Douglas Fowley), takes a snowball from her basket and Nick receives an empty one. The Blue Diamond disappears. Aided by a private investigator, Ellen Dale (Pamela Blake), Chick finds himself pitted against the criminals searching for the missing Blue Diamond...

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as Chick Carter *

as Rusty Farrell * Julie Gibson as Sherry Marvin * Pamela Blake as Ellen Dale *

as Spud Warner * Robert Elliot as Dan Rankin *

George Meeker George Meeker (March 5, 1904 – August 19, 1984) was an American character film and Broadway actor. A graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Meeker made several films such as '' Crime, Inc.'' (1945) and '' A Thief in the Dark' ...

as Nick Pollo *

Leonard Penn Leonard Penn (13 November 1907 – 20 May 1975) was an American film, television and theatre actor. Early life and education Penn was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, to parents Marcus Penn and Eva Monson. He majored in drama at Columbia U ...

as Vasky * Charles King as Joe Carney *

Jack Ingram Jack Owen Ingram (born November 15, 1970) is an American country music artist formerly signed to Big Machine Records, an independent record label. He has released eleven studio albums, one extended play, six live albums, and 19 singles. Althou ...

as Mack * Joel Friedkin as Jules Hoyt * Eddie Parker as Frank Sharp

Chapter titles

# Chick Carter Takes Over # Jump to Eternity # Grinding Wheels # Chick Carter Trapped # Out of Control # Chick Carter's Quest # Chick Carter's Frame-up # Chick Carter Gives Chase # Shadows in the Night # Run to Earth # Hurled Into Space # Chick Carter Faces Death # Rendezvous with Murder # Chick Carter Sets a Trap # Chick Carter Wins Out _Source:

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* * {{Sam Katzman 1946 films 1940s English-language films American black-and-white films Columbia Pictures film serials 1940s crime films Nick Carter (literary character) American crime films Films with screenplays by Harry L. Fraser Films with screenplays by George H. Plympton Films directed by Derwin Abrahams 1940s American films

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