Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.
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Stanley Ridges
- Doctor Frankton
- (as Stanley C. Ridges)
Ernie Alexander
- Factory Workman
- (uncredited)
Louis V. Arco
- Yacht Captain
- (uncredited)
Frank Ball
- Peake the Gardener
- (uncredited)
Don Brodie
- Engel - X-49 Workman
- (uncredited)
Don Castle
- Ed - 1st Hurt Worker
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer bought the screen rights to all the 1,100 Nick Carter stories published from the 19th Century through the 1930s. However, all 3 of the films made in the Nick Carter series were based on original stories.
- Quotes
Nick Carter: What made you say murder?
Bartholomew: Because it looks like suicide, and if it looks like suicide, it can't be, right?
- Crazy creditsNo screen credit is given to Ormond G. Smith and John R. Coryell, who created the character of Nick Carter for pulp magazines.
- ConnectionsEdited from Too Hot to Handle (1938)
Featured review
Excellent production values and cast, but still rather humdrum
Based on the popular Nick Carter pulp stories, this detective B movie should have been a real winner with Walter Pidgeon as Carter and a host of excellent character actors. But instead it's only average. The movie takes place a couple of years before America entered WWII and involves a plot to steal blueprints for a new aircraft design by foreign spies from an unnamed country (duh, maybe Germany?). There is an attempt to bring humor to the film with the role of Mr. Bartholomew, the master beekeeper played by Donald Meek. While the character is occasionally amusing, he is just as often irritating. What was nice was the Rita Johnson role of the stewardess/nurse who actually helps Carter in his investigation. While this is good enough that it makes one want to see the other two entries in the Nick Carter series, it is not in the top tier of B detective movie series entries.
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- Paularoc
- Jun 27, 2013
Details
- Runtime59 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was Nick Carter, Master Detective (1939) officially released in India in English?
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