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The Westland Case is a 1937 American mystery film directed by Christy Cabanne and starring Preston Foster, Frank Jenks, and Carol Hughes.

The Westland Case
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Directed by	Christy Cabanne
Screenplay by	Robertson White[1]
Based on	Headed for a Hearse by Jonathan Latimer
Produced by	Irving Starr Larry Fox[1]
Starring	Preston Foster Frank Jenks Carol Hughes
Cinematography	Ira Morgan[1]
Edited by	Otis Garrett[1]
Music by	Charles Previn[1]
Production company	Crime Club Productions[1]
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	October 31, 1937 (1937-10-31)
Running time	63 minutes
Country	United States[1]
Language	English

Cast

• Preston Foster as Bill Crane
• Frank Jenks as Doc Williams
• Carol Hughes as Emily Lou Martin
• Barbara Pepper as Agatha Hogan
• Astrid Allwyn as Bentine
• Clarence Wilson as Charlie Frazee
• Theodore Von Eltz as Robert Westland
• George Meeker as Richard Bolston
• Russell Hicks as Woodbury
• Selmer Jackson as Warden

Production

In 1937, Universal Pictures made a deal with the Crime Club who published whodunnit novels.[2] Universal were granted the right to select four of their yearly published novels to adapt into films.[2] The unit responsible for these films was producer Irving Starr.[2] Eleven films were made in the series between 1937 and 1939.[3] The Westland Case was the first in the series and was based on the Jonathan Latimer novel Headed for a Hearse.[4]

The first films in the series featured Preston Foster as Bill Crane and Frank Jenks as Doc Williams were cast as the wisecracking New York city detectives.[4] These characters would appear in two other films in the series: The Lady in the Morgue and The Last Warning.[4][5]

Release

The Westland Case was released on October 31, 1937.[4]

References

Footnotes

Sources

External links

• The Westland Case at IMDb
• The Westland Case at the TCM Movie Database
• The Westland Case at the American Film Institute Catalog

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