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Super-Sleuth is a 1937 comedy film directed by Ben Stoloff.[1] It was an early lead role for Jack Oakie.[2] Super Sleuth was a remade in 1946 as Genius at Work, with comedy team of Wally Brown and Alan Carney.[3]

Super-Sleuth
Directed by	Ben Stoloff
Written by	Gertrude Purcell Ernest Pagano
Produced by	Edward Small
Starring	Jack Oakie Ann Sothern
Cinematography	Joseph H. August
Edited by	William Hamilton
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release date	July 16, 1937 (1937-07-16)
Running time	75 mins
Country	United States
Language	English

Plot

A film detective believes he actually has the skills to solve a real life case. Bill Martin's (Jack Oakie) boasts irritate the real detectives of the Los Angeles police, as well as studio publicist Mary Strand (Ann Sothern), who loves Bill but doesn't appreciate the actor's arrogance.

A mysterious killer known as the "Poison Pen" decides to murder Bill, annoyed with his last movie. Bill and Mary go to amateur sleuth Professor Herman (Eduardo Ciannelli) for advice, unaware that the professor and the murderer are one and the same.

By mistake, film co-star Ralph Waring (Bradley Page) is killed by the Poison Pen, and stand-in Larry Frank (Alan Bruce) is suspected of the crime. To save Bill from the killer and from himself, Mary arranges for him to be locked up, but the gullible Bill gets Professor Herman to bail him out of jail. Mary and the cops come to his rescue just in time.

Cast

• Jack Oakie as Willard "Bill" Martin
• Ann Sothern as Mary Strand
• Eduardo Ciannelli as Professor Herman
• Alan Bruce as Larry Frank
• Edgar Kennedy as Lieutenant Garrison
• Joan Woodbury as Doris Dunne
• Bradley Page as Ralph Waring
• Paul Guilfoyle as Gibbons
• Willie Best as Warts
• William Corson as Beckett
• Alec Craig as Eddie, doorman

References

External links

• Super-Sleuth at IMDb
• Super-Sleuth at AllMovie
• Super-Sleuth at the TCM Movie Database
• Super-Sleuth at the American Film Institute Catalog

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