Murder Is My Business (1946)
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Directors
Sam Newfield
Cast
Cheryl Walker, George Meeker, Hugh Beaumont, Jack Chefe, Lyle Talbot, Pierre Watkin, Virginia Christine
The story
Arnold Ramsey has two grown children, Dorothy and Ernest, who hate Ramsey's second wife Eleanor who has money of her own, but refuses to spend it on supporting their lavish lifestyles. Eleanor meets with private detective Mike Shayne to hire him to investigate threatening letters she has been receiving. In flashback the viewer sees the details of her home situation.
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action film, crime film
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