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Private Detective 62: Directed by Michael Curtiz. With William Powell, Margaret Lindsay, Ruth Donnelly, Gordon Westcott. A down-and-out private eye falls for a woman he has been hired to frame.
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- Drama
- Michael Curtiz
- 1933-06-10
Private Detective 62 is a 1933 American pre-Code detective film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring William Powell as a private detective who falls for a woman whom he has been hired to frame in a scandal. Plot. In France, U.S. State Department employee Donald Free is caught trying to steal French state papers.
A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at a low-rent detective agency. He soon gets involved with a woman with ties to a crooked gambling club owner, who is a client of his agency.
In Private Detective 62 (1933), Powell plays a compromised government agent reduced to working as a private dick for a disreputable New York agency during the early days of the Depression.
- Michael Curtiz, Arthur Greville Collins
- William Powell
Jul 4, 2018 · 7.34K subscribers. Subscribed. 32. 3.6K views 5 years ago. Trailer for the Michael Curtiz-directed wry comedy-crime drama, PRIVATE DETECTIVE 62 starring William Powell, Margaret Lindsay and...
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Private Detective 62. 1933. Directed by Michael Curtiz. It’s a pleasure to have your home wrecked by a man like him. A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at a low-rent detective agency.
