Connection
Adventures of Kitty O'Day is a american film of genre Thriller directed by William Beaudine released in USA on 19 january 1945 with Jean Parker
Adventures of Kitty O'Day (1945)
If you like this film, let us know!
- Infos
- Casting
- Technical infos
- Photos
- Videos
- Film quotes
- Characters
- Music
- Awards
Add to a movie listAdventures 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.
Synopsis
Amateur detective Kitty O'Day and her boyfriend are employed in a hotel. After the owner is shot, O'Day takes over the investigation despite the protests of the police.Actors
Jean Parker
(Kitty O'Day)
Peter Cookson
(Johnny Jones)
Lorna Gray
(Gloria Williams)
Ralph Sanford
(Mike, Police Detective Sergeant)
Jan Wiley
(Carla Brant)
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to Adventures of Kitty O'Day
There are 98 films with the same actors, 168 films with the same director, 57411 with the same cinematographic genres (including 842 with exactly the same 3 genres than Adventures of Kitty O'Day), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked Adventures of Kitty O'Day, you will probably like those similar films :
Detective Kitty O'Day (1944)
, 1h1Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Jean Parker, Peter Cookson, Veda Ann Borg, Edward Gargan, Douglas Fowley, Olaf Hytten
Rating53%
After her boss is murdered, secretary and aspiring detective Kitty O'Day sees a chance to put her skills to the test to the annoyance of the investigating police officer Inspector Clancy. When Clancy won't properly investigate the dead man's widow, O'Day takes it upon herself to unmask the killer - with the reluctant assistance of her boyfriend Johnny Jones.
Fashion Model (1945)
, 1h1Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy
Actors Robert Lowery, Marjorie Weaver, Lorna Gray, Dorothy Christy, Dewey Robinson, Harry Depp
Rating52%
When a prominent fashion model is murdered, a stockboy accused of the crime must clear his name, working with another model.
Oh, What a Night! (1944)
, 1h12Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Edmund Lowe, Jean Parker, Marjorie Rambeau, Alan Dinehart, Sr., Pierre Watkin, Ivan Lebedeff
Rating59%
A man is keeping a secret from his young niece: he's an international jewel thief!
Don't Gamble with Strangers (1946)
, 1h8Directed by William Beaudine
Genres Drama
Actors Kane Richmond, Bernadene Hayes, Peter Cookson, Gloria Warren, Charles Trowbridge, Anthony Caruso
Rating60%
The Chinese Ring (1947)
, 1h8Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Actors Roland Winters, Warren Douglas, Victor Sen Yung, Mantan Moreland, Louise Currie, Philip Ahn
Rating57%
Charlie Chan (Roland Winters) is a private investigator living in San Francisco. One day a Chinese princess comes to visit him in his home. She has just arrived from the East by boat. The princess manages to give Chan’s butler Birmingham Brown (Mantan Moreland) an artifact - an ancient heirloom ring - before she is shot an killed by a poisoned arrow through the window. She leaves a note behind, with the name ”Captain K”. Chan calls for the police to investigate this murder. Bill Davidson (Warren Douglas) with the SFPD comes to Chan, but his friend, the reporter Peggy Cartwright (Louise Currie), also arrives uninvited to the scene.
Spook Busters (1946)
, 1h8Directed by William Beaudine
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror, Crime
Themes Ghost films, Comedy horror films
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, William Benedict, Gabriel Dell, David Gorcey
Rating59%
All of the boys have just graduated from school where they learned exterminating, except for Sach who flunked out. They set up their new business in a corner of Louie's Sweet Shop and quickly get a job to remove ghosts from an old abandoned mansion. Upon arrival they discover weird events taking place, such as lights turning on when a match is lit, and a disappearing organ. Soon they discover that these events are not the actions of ghosts, but of a mad scientist who is conducting illegal experiments in the basement.
The Panther's Claw (1942)
, 1h10Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Sidney Blackmer, Rick Vallin, Byron Foulger, Herbert Rawlinson, John Ince, Walter James
Rating58%
Police see Digberry climbing over a wall, out of a graveyard at one a.m. He has left a thousand dollars inside on a grave, as ordered in a letter he received. The money is now gone. They take him to headquarters. He reveals the letter came from “the Panther” and is now believed as others have had letters from the same character and Digberry meets a group of them. They all got typewritten letters demanding a thousand dollars too but unlike him they consulted the police. The group all turn out to be connected (Digberry makes wigs). Baritone, Enrico Lombardi looks to be a possible candidate so the Commissioner orders him brought in.
Torchy Blane in Chinatown (1939)
Directed by William Beaudine
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy, Henry O'Neill, Patric Knowles, James Stephenson
Rating60%
The Shanghai Chest (1948)
Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Roland Winters, Victor Sen Yung, Mantan Moreland, Tristram "Tris" Coffin, Russell Hicks, Pierre Watkin
Rating60%
As Victor Armstrong visits his uncle, Judge Wesley Armstrong in San Francisco, he is knocked unconscious by an unknown attacker, and when he wakes up he finds out his uncle has been stabbed to death. The judge's private secretary, Phyllis Powers, finds the two men and calls the police to the scene. When Victor wakes up he has the knife that stabbed his uncle in his hand.
Jinx Money (1948)
, 1h8Directed by William Beaudine
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, William Benedict, Gabriel Dell, David Gorcey, Benny Bartlett
Rating60%
Pollack, an underworld gambler, is murdered, but before he dies he hides $50,000 that he just won gambling in a newspaper and kicks it under a car. The next day Sach and Slip are walking in the street and find the paper and the cash. Gabe, who is a reporter, runs a story on them finding the money and the gangsters that Pollack won the money from come looking for them. One by one they take the money from the boys and are immediately killed by the mysterious "umbrella". Eventually the boys get tired of having the money taken from them and people dying around them so they hand the money over to the police. The "umbrella", not knowing that they boys no longer have the money, comes to collect it from them and is captured by the police who were staking the boys hideout waiting for the killer.