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The French Key

5.0 64 mins Crime   Mystery   Adventure   1946
Republic Pictures   Walter Colmes Productions  
Director(s): Walter Colmes

Private detective Johnny Fletcher and his sidekick Sam Cragg skip out on their rented room, but when they sneak back to retrieve their luggage, they discover a dead body on the bed, holding a gold coin in its hand. Fletcher is told by a coin collector that the piece is an old and valuable Spanish coin, but Fletcher soon begins to suspect that the man is himself involved in the murder. Fletcher's investigation leads to he and Sam getting caught up in a murder and gold smuggling scheme.

Casts of The French Key

Albert Dekker

as Johnny Fletcher

Evelyn Ankers

as Janet Morgan

Mike Mazurki

as Sam Cragg

John Eldredge

as John Holterman

Frank Fenton

as Horatio Vedder

Selmer Jackson

as Walter Winslow

Byron Foulger

as Peabody

Joe DeRita

as Fox

David Gorcey

as Eddie

Archie Twitchell

as Murdock (as Michael Branden)

Emmett Vogan

as Desk Clerk

George Chandler

as Roomer (uncredited)

Bernard Gorcey

as Little Man (uncredited)

Frank Moran

as Listener to Sam's Story (uncredited)

Hugh Prosser

as Swede (uncredited)

Richard Arlen

as Himself (uncredited)

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