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Homicide Bureau (1939)

Directed by Charles C. Coleman

Overview

After being criticized by the Citizens’ League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide Bureau to clean up all their cases, but without violating the constitutional rights of any suspect. Detective Jim Logan is ordered to meet the incoming new-head of the Police Department lab and internal affairs, J.G. Bliss, and takes an instant dislike to her over her attitude toward criminal’s rights.

Length 58 minutes

Actors

Ann Doran | Marc Lawrence | Bruce Cabot | Moroni Olsen | Nell Craig | Rita Hayworth | Stanley Brown | Richard Fiske | Stanley Andrews | George Lloyd | Robert Paige | Joe De Stefani | Charles Trowbridge | John Tyrrell | Norman Willis | Hooper Atchley | Lester Dorr | Beatrice Blinn | Eddie Fetherston | Harry Bernard | Gene Morgan | Dick Curtis | George DeNormand | Dick Rush | Lee Shumway | Lee Prather | William Worthington | Beatrice Curtis | Gene Stone | Kit Guard | Wedgwood Nowell | Georgie Cooper | Frank Fanning | Pat McKee | Ky Robinson