Who Killed Gail Preston?
Directed byLeon Barsha
Screenplay byRobert Kent
Produced byRalph Cohn
StarringDon Terry
Rita Hayworth
Robert Paige
CinematographyHenry Freulich
Edited byByron Robinson
Production
company
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • February 24, 1938 (1938-02-24)
Running time
61 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Who Killed Gail Preston? is a 1938 American crime film directed by Leon Barsha and starring Don Terry, Rita Hayworth, and Robert Paige.[1]

Plot

When singer Gail Preston is murdered at the Swing Swing Club, inspector Tom Kellogg takes the case and finds that many at the club disliked the victim. Suspicion at first falls on a man named Owen, but when is also found dead, bandleader Swing Traynor becomes the prime suspect. Discovering that Preston was killed by a gun rigged to a spotlight, Kellogg gathers all the suspects in a room and trains the spotlight on each.

Cast

References

  1. Ducibella, Jim (1 March 2012). King of Clubs: The Great Golf Marathon of 1938. Potomac Books, Inc. p. 47. ISBN 978-1-59797-836-1.


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