Follow That Woman
Cast & Crew
Lew Landers
William Gargan
Nancy Kelly
Regis Toomey
Byron [s.] Barr
Ed Gargan
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Synopsis
Nancy and her boyfriend are at the notorious Downtown Club, recently the scene of a murder, when Nancy witnesses what she believes to be a holdup at the table next to theirs. Nancy instinctively hits the gunman, Sam Boone, over the head with a champagne bottle, knocking him unconscious. Nancy then discovers, to her chagrin, that Sam is a police officer, and that he was trying to make an arrest. Despite the unusual circumstances of their meeting, Nancy and Sam eventually marry, and two years later they return to the Downtown Club to reminisce about their first meeting. At the club, Sam, who is now a private detective, gets a note from singer Marge Andrews requesting that he meet her in her dressing room. Sam and Nancy enter Marge's dressing room only to find that she has been murdered. Sam sees the blood stains left by the murderer on the radiator, but because he does not want to spoil his chances of getting into the Army, he decides to ignore the clue and pretend that he was never in the room. He then asks Nick, the nightclub's host, not to tell the police that he was the first to find Marge dead. After Sam leaves to join the Army, Nancy and Butch, Sam's partner, get a telephone call from J. B. Henderson, who is looking to hire a detective to find Marge. Henderson tells them that he was to have a business meeting with Marge and is worried that she did not show up. The next day, Nancy asks Nick to recall the murder scene, but he denies having been there. Nancy and Butch then break into Marge's apartment, and a shot rings out while they are searching for clues. The unseen gunman flees, and Butch is unable to find him. Meanwhile, at the Army camp, Sam gets a letter from Butch requesting that he return home to persuade his wife to give up her amateur sleuthing. Sam pleads with his commander to grant him a leave, and succeeds in doing so only after he promises the commander that he will produce Marge's body as proof that he has a case. Given only seven days to solve the case, Sam returns home and tries to take over the investigation from Nancy. Nancy, however, refuses to give up the case, and decides to carry out her own investigation. Later, while questioning Barney Manners, a gambling operator and Marge's former sweetheart, Sam learns that Marge was with Henderson the night she was killed. Sam notices that Barney's hand has been cut, but despite this, he does not believe that Barney is the killer. At Henderson's, Sam learns that another former flame of Marge's, college student John Evans, had been pursuing her just before the murder. Nancy, meanwhile, disguised as a French maid, searches the Henderson house for clues, and finds an identical brooch to the one that was stolen from Marge on the night of her murder. Nancy then moves on to the next suspect, Evans, and tries to befriend him by posing as a college student. At the same time, Sam and Butch find the stolen brooch at a pawn shop. Believing he has hit upon the solution to the mystery, Sam calls together all his suspects and invites them to a party at the nightclub. There, he exposes Evans as the killer, and uncovers Marge's body in the freezer. With the case closed, Sam then arranges to have Nancy inducted into the Army to keep her in his sight and out of trouble.
Director
Lew Landers
Cast
William Gargan
Nancy Kelly
Regis Toomey
Byron [s.] Barr
Ed Gargan
Don Costello
Pierre Watkin
Audrey Young
Roland Varno
Crew
Henry Adams
Howard Anderson
Sam Coslow
Max Hutchinson
Fred Jackman Jr.
Lu Judkins
Joseph I. Kane
James Knott
Alexander Laszlo
L. B. Merman
Nat Merman
Winston Miller
Leslie Page
Ben Perry
William H. Pine
Roy Raguse
Maxwell Shane
Maxwell Shane
Ray Smallwood
Howard Smith
F. Paul Sylos
Frank Sylos
William C. Thomas
Glenn [p.] Thompson
Philip G. Wisdom
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The working titles of this film were Crime on My Hands and Crime on Her Hands. Various elements of the plot remain unexplained in the film, and the Variety review noted that the "wandering plot is the chief weakness." According to a Hollywood Reporter news item, actresses Marjorie Reynolds and Helen Walker were suspended by Paramount for refusing the role of "Nancy Boone."
