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Synopsis: Sardonic detective Shane, thrown out of one town for bringing trouble, heads for home and his ex-partner's detective agency. The business is in a sad way, and Shane, who has had the forethought to provide himself with a 250-dollar commission from an old lady on the train, is welcomed with open arms. When pretty Valerie Purvis walks in the next day willing to pay over the odds to put a tail on the man who did her wrong, Shane's way with the ladies looks like paying off yet again. But things start to go wrong when his partner is murdered, and Shane himself comes home to find his apartment wrecked by a gentlemanly crook who comes back to apologise -- and to tell him a fascinating fairy-story about the fabled Horn of Roland that looks like not being so mythical after all. Miss Purvis wants protection. The police want answers. And all sorts of people want the 'French horn'... but Shane is one jump ahead of everyone all the way. Well, almost.
Director(s): William Dieterle
Production: Warner Bros.
 
IMDB:
6.2
APPROVED
Year:
1936
74 min
65 Views


- But you went away.

- Yeah.

But now I'm back.

Isn't it wonderful

having Shane back with us again?

Yeah. Everything's gonna be all right now.

- Are you going to be home this evening?

- I certainly am.

Well, that's a fine way

to tend to business, Ames.

Huh?

I told you, you should follow Mrs. Arden

whenever she goes out.

Yeah, but you didn't say

anything about tonight.

Well, I meant to.

She's going to a piano concert tonight.

- Like the piano?

- No.

Is that nice?

After all the trouble I've gone through

to get you your first case in months.

- Excepting, of course, hounding poodles.

- Have you really got a case already?

Oh, you wonderful darling.

It'll be just like old times if you can get

the business going good again.

We're a cinch, kitten. Aren't we, partner?

Oh, I'm sorry.

Kitten, how many times

do I have to tell you

to change the name on this door

to "Shane and Ames"?

Since you landed,

I've had too much else to do.

Hello, what's this?

Oh, that reminds me.

What are you doing tonight?

I've got a date.

Break it, precious,

and you and I'll have a lot of fun.

Oh, forgive me if I don't break

the date I already had.

It was with

the most thoughtful fellow named...

Named Shane.

Then I didn't catch you after all.

I knew we had a date,

I just wanted to see if you remembered.

- Oh, sorry. I thought you were sleeping.

- I was going to. I mean... No.

This is my partner, Mr. Shane.

- And this is Miss Valerie...

- Purvis.

Yes, Purvis, Purvis. Thank you.

Miss Purvis has got trouble.

- She wants us to take care of it.

- She came to the right place.

- Can you help me?

- If anybody can, we can.

- What's your trouble?

- Well, a man she met in Baltimore

promised to marry her and ran out on her.

- Yes, I know his kind.

- Sure you do.

She followed him to this town,

but she hasn't been able

- to get in touch with him.

- A rotten trick.

And, she thought... Yeah.

She wants us to find him for her.

- How?

- Well, she's been in contact

with her boyfriend's pal,

a man named Farrow.

- But Farrow won't tell her anything.

- We'll make him tell.

This means so much to me.

Could either of you

take care of it personally?

Now, that depends

on how much it means to you.

Well, I'll show you.

Would this...

Would this show you

how much it means to me?

$100?

I thought you really cared for the man.

Oh, but I do.

We'll find him for you.

Now, tell us where we can pick up Farrow,

and how do we know him

when we see him?

Well, I have an appointment

to meet him tonight at 8:00

- in the lobby of the General Fremont Hotel.

- That'll peg him for us.

Then all we'll have to do will be

to follow him wherever he goes,

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Brown Holmes

Brown Holmes (December 12, 1907, Toledo, Ohio – February 12, 1974, Los Angeles County, California) was an American screenwriter who worked for several major Hollywood studios in the 1930s and 1940s. Among his credits are several highly regarded prison films: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932) and Castle on the Hudson (1940). He also wrote or co-wrote two adaptations of Dashiell Hammett's 1930 detective novel The Maltese Falcon: The Maltese Falcon (1931) and Satan Met a Lady (1936). more…

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