Here's Flash Casey
Cast & Crew
Lynn Shores
Eric Linden
Boots Mallory
Cully Richards
Holmes Herbert
Joseph Crehan
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Synopsis
After putting himself through college by selling his photographs, Flash Casey expects to be hired by Blaine, the editor of the Globe Press , who is uninterested in hiring the spunky young man. When Flash takes a photo of the publisher's son, Rodney Addison, kissing French dancer Mitzi La Rue, Blaine hires him on the condition that Flash gives him the negatives, as they have been strictly forbidden to photograph Rodney. Flash works as an apprentice to Wade, who gives him a hard time, and takes credit for most of Flash's photographs. When Kay Lanning, the special features and society editor, asks for Flash's help in saving Pop Lawrence's Snap News pictorial magazine, which is published by Addison but is separate from the paper, Flash gladly helps out because he has fallen in love with her. Addison has threatened to cancel the magazine because the photographs are not good enough, but this is because Pop's photographer, hard-boiled Gus Payton, slips all the best photos to Blaine, who thinks Pop's magazine is ridiculous. Kay gives Flash a tip on a secret society wedding, and he gives the resulting photograph to Pop. The next day, the photograph appears on the front page, and Blaine fires Flash for helping Pop. Flash is hired by Pop after Payton quits because Ricker, a gangster, has set him up with his own camera shop. Kay invites Flash to be her escort at a charity fundraising party thrown by Addison. Knowing Kay would like to have photographs of the party but has been forbidden by Addison to allow photographers to attend, Flash borrows a "candid camera" from Payton, and surreptitiously takes photographs during the party. He gets one photograph of Addison with Mitzi, and Flash later takes the negatives to Payton's to develop. Payton falsifies the photograph of Addison with Mitzi to appear as if they are in their underwear, and turns them over to Ricker. They go to Addison's office, and while Ricker attempts to blackmail Addison, Payton slips the negatives into Flash's desk. Addison throws Ricker out, but he later suspects Flash to be involved in the plot, and heads for the district attorney's office with Kay. As they leave their office building, Ricker's thugs try to kidnap Addison and Kay, but Flash approaches them, and a fight ensues. Ricker shoots Addison from a car, and Kay is kidnapped. Flash photographs the shooting, and tries to follow Ricker's car, but his taxi is pulled over by police. He then calls police Lieutenant Logan from a telephone booth, but leaves his camera in the booth. A tourist returns the camera, and Blaine tries to snatch the photos, but Flash gets them back after a struggle. He and Wade join forces, and steal an ambulance to impersonate paramedics and take Ricker by surprise and gain admittance into his house. Ricker lets them in, thinking of using the ambulance to escape, but Payton recognizes them and runs, while Flash and Wade knock Ricker out. Kay escapes, locking up Ricker's moll before the police arrive, in pursuit of the stolen ambulance, and take the criminals away. Wade takes a candid shot while Kay and Flash kiss.
Director
Lynn Shores
Cast
Eric Linden
Boots Mallory
Cully Richards
Holmes Herbert
Joseph Crehan
Howard Lang
Victor Adams
Harry Harvey
Suzanne Kaaren
Matty Kemp
Dorothy Vaughn
Maynard Holmes
Crew
Arthur Alexander
Max Alexander
Edward L. Alperson
Alexander Bros.
Charles Henkel Jr.
A. E. Kaye
Terry Kellum
John Krafft
Marcel Le Picard
Harold Lewis
Paul Palmentola
Fred Prebble
Henry Spitz
Alfred Stern
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Notes
Actor Joseph Crehan's name is incorrectly listed as John Crehan in the onscreen credits, and photographer Marcel Le Picard's surname is misspelled as "Pickard."
