Exposed
Cast & Crew
George Blair
Adele Mara
Robert Scott
Adrian Booth
Robert Armstrong
William Haade
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Synopsis
When a gunman tries to kidnap private investigator Belinda Prentice, she is rescued by her partner, Iggy Broty. Later, at their office, Belinda and Iggy meet Col. William K. Bentry, a member of the wealthy Foresman family, who hires Belinda to investigate his stepson, William Foresman III. Bentry explains that Bill has made several large bank withdrawals recently without offering an explanation and that he fears that the family firm's attorney, Jonathan Lowell, has taken control of the company. Bentry invites Belinda to the Foresman estate that evening, and when she arrives at the front door, she sees Bill's stepsister Judith rushing out. The butler, Severance, then ushers Belinda into the library, where she sees Bentry lying dead. After Belinda is introduced to Lowell, family friend Prof. Ordsmon and Bill, she notices a syringe lying on the carpet and quickly picks it up. Just then, Judith enters the room casually and feigns surprise at the news of Bentry's death. Moments later, Belinda's father, homicide inspector Prentice, arrives and demands to know Belinda's business there. When Prentice begins questioning everyone, Severance admits that he has been helping Ordson develop a cure for alcoholism. Determined to solve the case herself, Belinda steals her father's badge and tells the guard at the door that she is on special assignment for her father. Belinda and Iggy then rush to Ordson's apartment, and she breaks in while Iggy waits outside. When she opens a bedroom door inside the apartment, Ordson assumes that his henchman, Chicago, has returned and yells at her to shut the door. When Chicago enters a few minutes later, Belinda is able to sneak out undetected. Meanwhile, Iggy becomes concerned that Belinda has not returned, enters the apartment without seeing Belinda and begins fighting with Chicago. Back at the Foresman estate, Inspector Prentice determines that Bentry died of a heart attack before falling forward and stabbing himself on a letter opener. Belinda asks about the syringe needle and is told that Bentry had been taking vitamin shots. Later, when Belinda returns to Ordson's apartment to talk to Bill, Chicago hides, afraid he will be recognized as the gunman who tried to kidnap her. Later, Belinda notices Chicago's hat lying on the table, and Bill admits that they have hired someone to guard their experimental apparatus. At the Foresman estate, Judith insists that Bentry was murdered, so Belinda examines Severance's room, which has been ransacked. Chicago and Lowell then show up at Belinda's office and demand that she leave town immediately. Later, Prentice phones to say that Lowell, who had been embezzling company funds, was found dead on the lawn at the Foresman estate. When Judith admits that she had seen Lowell moments before the murder, Prentice determines that he must have treated the needle with poison before Judith administered Bentry's vitamin shot. Chicago explains that Lowell blackmailed Judith, who assumed she had caused her father's death, into assigning him power of attorney, thereby giving him control of the company. After both the syringe and the power of attorney paper disappear from Lowell's body, Severance admits to taking them, but insists that Bentry killed himself accidentally. Later, Severance and Chicago are arrested for Lowell's murder, while Prentice praises his daughter's fine sleuthing.
Director
George Blair
Cast
Adele Mara
Robert Scott
Adrian Booth
Robert Armstrong
William Haade
Bob Steele
Harry Shannon
Charles Evans
Joyce Compton
Russell Hicks
Paul E. Burns
Colin Campbell
Edward Gargan
Mary Gordon
Patricia Knox
George Davis
Eddie Acuff
Larry Steers
Crew
William Bradford
Bart Carré
Ernest Gold
Bob Mark
John Mccarthy Jr.
Charles Moran
William J. O'sullivan
Adele Palmer
Irving M. Schoenberg
Fred Stahl
James Sullivan
Charles Thompson
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Notes
The working title of this film was It's Murder, She Says, which was also the title of Charles Moran's screen story. According to a pre-production Los Angeles Times news item, Grant Withers was to appear in the cast, but he was not in the released film.
