Detective Kitty O'Day
Detective Kitty O'Day
| 13 May 1944 (USA)
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Convinced that she has what it takes to be a detective, inquisitive secretary Kitty O'Day gets her chance to put her sleuthing skills to the test when her investment broker boss is mysteriously murdered. But Kitty's investigation hits a snag when Inspector Miles Clancy begins to suspect that she's the culprit.

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Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
Ameriatch One of the best films i have seen
Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.
Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
howdymax I agree with a previous reviewer when he said he loves the old Monogram programmers. I do too. In fact, I took the time to track down and visit the address of the studio at the wrong end of Sunset Blvd some years ago. (The studio is now a PBS station and the offices are a take out chicken joint). But this attempt at putting together yet another amateur detective couple fizzled badly. Cross Torchy Blaine with The Mad Miss Manton, cut the budget in half, and give it to Bill "One Shot" Beaudine to direct, and there you are. The story isn't bad, but there are endless scenes of the the two sleuths creeping around dark rooms, tripping over furniture, and arguing with the dummy cops. We've seen it all before, and we've seen it done better.
bkoganbing Detective Kitty O'Day played by Jean Parker in the first of two films she did as Kitty O'Day who with her reluctant boyfriend Peter Cookson goes around solving crimes and generally getting into all kinds of mischief. If I didn't know any better I'd swear I was watching Bonita Granville and Frankie Thomas in one of the Warner Brothers Nancy Drew series albeit a bit older.Parker is working for a millionaire who winds up dead with a widow who was already stepping out with Douglas Fowley. Veda Ann Borg was the merry widow and she's the main reason to see this as she usually is the main reason to see any film she's in.Bodies start piling up in this 'mystery' until it is fairly obvious who could have done it.One more film and there was no more demand for Kitty O'Day.
gridoon2018 "Detective Kitty O'Day" is not a great mystery (the murderer is fairly easy to spot after a point, especially when the other suspects keep getting bumped off!), but it doesn't need to be: it's the comedy that primarily carries this picture, and it carries it well. The dialogue is snappy and the pacing is breezy. More specifically, just about every line uttered by the clueless but good natured cop played by Ed Gargan is funny to very funny ("I wanted to get you out of that hot closet before you sophisticated!"). Jean Parker is absolutely adorable as the title character: beautiful, spunky, brave, and deeply devoted to her boyfriend; near the end, she's not afraid to get physical with the bad guys using her handbag as a weapon! The "official" DVD print of the movie, included in a "Poverty Row" collection with two others, has a couple of bad splices, but they don't detract much. *** out of 4.
Charles Herold (cherold) After watching the surprisingly enjoyable "The Adventures of Kitty O'Day" I hunted down the movie it was a sequel to, "Detective Kitty O'Day." While I thought the first movie was pretty funny, this one seemed much weaker. It surprises me that this movie generated a sequel (and that the second, better movie ended the series).I won't say this movie is dumber than the other one; they're both pretty dumb. And I wouldn't say Jean Parker was any less charming in this one; she's still fun and lively as she blithely goes from one disaster to the next. But it's just not as funny a movie, and even at an hour long it felt like it dragged.