Super-Sleuth

A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.

Cast

Jack Oakie

as Bill Martin

Ann Sothern

as Mary Strand

Eduardo Ciannelli

as Professor Herman

Alan Bruce

as Larry Frank, a movie stand-in

Edgar Kennedy

as Police Lt. Garrison

Joan Woodbury

as Doris Duane, a film actress

Bradley Page

as Ralph Waring

Paul Guilfoyle

as Gibbons, a film director

Willie Best

as Warts, Martin's manservant

William Corson

as Beckett

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