Who's Guilty?

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Who's Guilty?

Directed by	Howard Bretherton Wallace Grissell
Produced by	Sam Katzman
Written by	Ande Lamb George H. Plympton
Starring	Robert Kent Amelita Ward Tim Ryan Jayne Hazard Minerva Urecal Charles B. Middleton
Music by	Lee Zahler
Cinematography	Ira H. Morgan
Editing by	Earl Turner
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release dates	13 December 1945
Running time	15 chapters (? min)
Country	United States
Language	English

Who's Guilty? (1945) is a Columbia film serial. It was the 28th of the 57 serials released by that studio. Who's Guilty? was a rare attempt at a whodunit mystery film in serial form.

Plot

Bob Stewart is called in to investigate the murder of Henry Calvert, a wealthy businessman, with a wide variety of suspects waiting for their inheritance.

Cast

Robert Kent as Bob Stewart, detective
Amelita Ward as Ruth Allen, love interest
Tim Ryan as Duke Ellis, Stewart's comedy sidekick
Jayne Hazard as Rita Royale
Minerva Urecal as Mrs Dill, the housekeeper
Charles B. Middleton as Patton, the butler, and Walter Calvert
Davison Clark as Henry Calvert, the murder victim
Sam Flint as Horace Black, the victim's lawyer
Bruce Donovan as Curt Bennett
Jack Ingram as Sergeant Smith
Milton Kibbee as Morgan Calvert
Nacho Galindo as Pancho
Robert Tafur as Jose
Wheeler Oakman as Smiley
Charles King as Burk

Critical reception

In the opinion of Cline, Robert Kent, as Police Investigator Bob Stewart was the only sane characterisation. The serial was a "complicated melange of victims and suspects...[Other characters] seemed lost in a swirl of plots, counterplots and cross plots that none of them could understand."^[1]

Chapter titles

Avenging Visitor
The Unknown Strikes
Held fro Murder
A Killer at Bay
Human Bait
The Plunge of Doom
A Date with Fate
Invisible Hands
Fate's Vengeance
The Unknown Killer
Riding to Oblivion
The Tank of Terror
White Terror
A Cry in the Night
The Guilty One

_Source:^[2]

References

↑ Cline, William C. (1984). "5. A Cheer for the Champions (The Heroes and Heroines)". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 78. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.
↑ Cline, William C. (1984). "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 242. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.

External links

Who's Guilty? at the Internet Movie Database
Who's Guilty? at allmovie

Preceded by Jungle Raiders (1945)	Columbia Serial Who's Guilty? (1945)	Succeeded by Hop Harrigan (1946)

Columbia serials

Serials

Pre-war Serials (1937–1942)	Jungle Menace The Mysterious Pilot The Secret of Treasure Island The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok The Spider's Web Flying G-Men Mandrake the Magician Overland with Kit Carson The Shadow Terry and the Pirates Deadwood Dick The Green Archer White Eagle The Spider Returns The Iron Claw Holt of the Secret Service

War-time Serials (1942–1945)	Captain Midnight Perils of the Royal Mounted The Secret Code The Valley of Vanishing Men Batman The Phantom The Desert Hawk Black Arrow Brenda Starr, Reporter The Monster and the Ape

Post-war Serials (1945–1956)	Jungle Raiders Who's Guilty? Hop Harrigan Chick Carter, Detective Son of the Guardsman Jack Armstrong The Vigilante The Sea Hound Brick Bradford Tex Granger Superman Congo Bill Bruce Gentry Batman and Robin Adventures of Sir Galahad Cody of the Pony Express Atom Man vs. Superman Pirates of the High Seas Roar of the Iron Horse Mysterious Island Captain Video King of the Congo Blackhawk Son of Geronimo The Lost Planet The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd Gunfighters of the Northwest Riding with Buffalo Bill The Adventures of Captain Africa Perils of the Wilderness Blazing the Overland Trail

See also

Film serials List of film serials List of film serials by studio

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