''Man from Headquarters'' is a 1942 American
crime film
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...
directed by
Jean Yarbrough and written by John W. Krafft,
Rollo Lloyd
Rollo Lloyd (March 22, 1883 – July 24, 1938) was an American actor who appeared in about 65 films. His films include ''Today We Live'', ''Strictly Personal'', '' The Lives of a Bengal Lancer'', '' Mad Love'', ''Magnificent Obsession'', ''The D ...
and Edmond Kelso. The film stars
Frank Albertson,
Joan Woodbury,
Dick Elliott,
Byron Foulger,
John Maxwell and
Robert Kellard. The film was released on January 23, 1942, by
Monogram Pictures
Monogram Pictures Corporation was an American film studio that produced mostly low-budget films between 1931 and 1953, when the firm completed a transition to the name Allied Artists Pictures Corporation. Monogram was among the smaller studios i ...
.
Plot
Cast
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Frank Albertson as Larry Doyle
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Joan Woodbury as Ann Weston
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Dick Elliott as Elwin A. Jonas
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Byron Foulger as Hotel Manager Clark
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John Maxwell as Marvin
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Robert Kellard as Hotel Clerk
*Mel Ruick as District Attorney Johnson
*Gwen Kenyon as Hat Check Girl
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Jack Mulhall as Whalen
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Christine McIntyre
Christine Cecilia McIntyre (April 16, 1911 – July 8, 1984) was an American actress and singer who appeared in various films in the 1930s and 1940s. She is mainly remembered as the beautiful blonde actress who appeared in many of The Three St ...
as Telegraph Girl
*Max Hoffman Jr. as Louis Padroni
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Paul Bryar as Knuckles
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Arthur O'Connell
Arthur Joseph O'Connell (March 29, 1908 – May 18, 1981) was an American stage, film and television actor, who achieved prominence in character roles in the 1950s. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for both ''Pic ...
as Goldie Shores
*Maynard Holmes as T. Fulton Whistler
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Charlie Hall as Newspaper Photographer
*Irving Mitchell as Nate
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George O'Hanlon
George O'Hanlon (November 23, 1912 – February 11, 1989) was an American actor and writer. He was best known for his role as Joe McDoakes in the Warner Bros.' live-action ''Joe McDoakes'' short subjects from 1942 to 1956 and as the voice of Georg ...
as Weeks
References
External links
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{{Jean Yarbrough
1942 films
1940s English-language films
American crime films
1942 crime films
Monogram Pictures films
Films directed by Jean Yarbrough
American black-and-white films
1940s American films