Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher

Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher (1943) is a crime, drama film directed by James Tinling rated 4.6/10.

Cosmo Jones, a correspondence-school detective from a small town, comes to the big city to offer his services to the police. He happens by where a gangster is killed by an opposing gang. Socialite Phyllis Blake is running around with gang member Tom and the opposing gang plan on kidnapping her. Cosmo is with Sergeant Flanagan when the attempt is made in front of a night club, where a bystander is seriously wounded in the gun-battle. Police Chief Murphy blames Flanagan for the shooting and demotes him. Cosmo, with the aid of a porter, Eustace and Flanagan's fiancée, Susan, tries to find the killer. Phyllis is finally kidnapped and Cosmo decides the act was committed by one of the two gangs. He has her father place an ad in the newspaper that contact has been made with the kidnappers. Each gang thinks the other is pulling a double cross, and one gang wipes out the other.

Cast

Frank Graham

Cosmo Jones

Edgar Kennedy

Police Chief Murphy

Gale Storm

Susan Fleming

Richard Cromwell

Sgt. Pat Flanagan

Mantan Moreland

Eustace Smith

Gwen Kenyon

Phyllis Blake

Herbert Rawlinson

Mr. James J. Blake

Tristram Coffin

Jake Pelotti

Charles Jordan

Biff Garr

Vince Barnett

Henchman 'Gimp'

Emmett Vogan

Police Commissioner Gould

Maxine Leslie

Mrs. Jake Pelotti