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Ellery Queen, Master Detective is a 1940 American mystery film directed by Kurt Neumann and written by Eric Taylor. The film stars Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay, Charley Grapewin, James Burke, Michael Whalen and Marsha Hunt. The film was released on November 30, 1940, by Columbia Pictures.
Ellery Queen, Master Detective: Directed by Kurt Neumann. With Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay, Charley Grapewin, James Burke. Famed detective and crime novelist Ellery Queen solves a case involving the suspicious death of a rich man whose inheritors fight over his estate.
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- Adventure, Crime, Drama
- Kurt Neumann
- 1940-11-30
Aug 10, 2022 · ELLERY QUEEN, MASTER DETECTIVE, a photo-play in seven reels by Columbia Pic-tures Corp. (C) 30Nov40; L10979. Columbia Pictures Corp. (PWH): 18Oct68; R445885.
- 67 min
- 418
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Ellery Queen is a pseudonym created in 1928 by the American detective fiction writers Frederic Dannay (1905–1982) and Manfred Bennington Lee (1905–1971). It is also the name of their main fictional detective, a mystery writer in New York City who helps his police inspector father solve baffling murder cases.
To locate her missing daughter, Mrs. Braun summons the redoubtable Inspector Queen, and when Queen's son Ellery, a mystery writer, overhears the disappearance story, he determines to find the missing Barbara and provide himself with a juicy plot.
- Kurt Neumann, Carl Hiecke
- Ralph Bellamy
Famed detective and crime novelist Ellery Queen solves a case involving the suspicious death of a rich man whose inheritors fight over his estate.
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Ralph Bellamy made the first of four appearances as fictional sleuth Ellery Queen in Columbia's Ellery Queen, Master Detective. For reasons that defy logic, the studio elected to transform the brilliant, analytical Queen into a hopeless bumbler, who seems incapable of tying his own shoes, much less solving a murder.
