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I Love a Mystery (1945)

69 min · mystery film

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Directors

Henry Levin

Cast

George Macready, Jim Bannon, Nina Foch

The story

The opening narration tells the audience it is watching, "I Love a Mystery, featuring the adventures of Jack Packard and Doc Long in the Decapitation of Jefferson Monk." Two private detectives, Jim Packard (Jim Bannon) and Doc Long (Barton Yarborough), make the uneasy acquaintance of Jefferson Monk (George Macready) at a nightclub. When a flaming dessert is nearly spilled onto the trio, Monk reveals it was meant for him. He explains that, according to a prophecy, he is to die in three days.

Catalogue themes and tags

Mystery

Genres

mystery film

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