F-Man
Cast & Crew
Edward F. Cline
Jack Haley
Adrienne Marden
William Frawley
Grace Bradley
Onslow Stevens
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Naïve and bumbling Johnny Dime leaves his home town and his fiancée, Molly Carter, to pursue his dream career as a government agent in Los Angeles. Despite a letter of introduction from his town's sheriff, the government is not interested in hiring him. Molly follows him to Los Angeles to surprise him, only to discover he is working as a soda clerk in a drugstore. Unable to bear the humiliation at his failure to become a G-man, Johnny tells Molly he is working undercover. He badgers government official Hogan until Hogan gives him rigorous, albeit bogus tests. Johnny completes each test with astonishing ability, however, so to avoid further nuisance, Hogan makes up a position of F-man for Johnny and sends him on his way, advising him to stay away from women. Believing he has a legitimate assignment, Johnny shuns Molly. When she answers the phone for him at the drugstore and a woman asks for him, she believes he is seeing another woman and leaves him. In reality, the woman is a moll for gangster Shaw, also known as Kramer, for whom Hogan and his chief, Cartwright, are looking, and for whom Johnny unwittingly runs errands. Johnny has mistaken a picture of Cartwright for the gangster, so when the chief comes in for a malt, Johnny renders him unconscious by slipping a powder in his drink and locks him in the closet. Johnny then calls Hogan, who upon arrival, fires him. Unknown to Johnny, Shaw has been using him as a go-between. When Johnny catches sight of Molly in a flower shop, he confesses his cover-up to her and, to prove his fidelity, takes her to Shaw's apartment. There, Johnny sees Hogan, who is working undercover as a gambler, and blows his cover. After the gangster kidnaps Molly and Hogan and leads Johnny on a car chase, Johnny manages to capture them with his fake gun. The moll shoots Johnny in the shoulder, but he survives the wound. Hogan delivers reward money to Johnny's hospital room and Johnny and Molly are finally reunited.
Director
Edward F. Cline
Cast
Jack Haley
Adrienne Marden
William Frawley
Grace Bradley
Onslow Stevens
Robert Middlemass
Edward Mcwade
Spencer Charters
June Brewster
Sam Ash
Norman Willis
Walter Johnson
Franklin Parker
Lucille Ward
Buck Mack
Mabel Forrest
Gail Sheridan
Harry Myers
Charles Moore
Arnold Gray
Keith Daniels
Charles Hamilton
David Newell
Jack Norton
Al Klein
Ed Schaefer
O. G. "dutch" Hendrian
Charles Sullivan
William Gilbert
Heinie Conklin
Phyllis Crane
Carol Holloway
Howard Mitchell
Dick Allen
Ralph Mccullough
Clinton Lyle
Crew
Richard Connell
Hans Dreier
A. E. Freudeman
Earl Hedrick
Henry Herzbrun
Arthur Jacobson
Don Johnson
Henry Johnson
Harold Lewis
Val Paul
Charles Rogers
Dore Schary
Paul Gerard Smith
Leo Tover
Paul Weatherwax
Eddie Welch
Adolph Zukor
Film Details
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Notes
According to Paramount studio correspondence, Dore Schary protested the omission of his name from the screenplay credits on the film.
