Mister Dynamite
Created by Dashiell Hammett

This 1935 film, based on a Hammett short story, sounds like a blast! MISTER DYNAMITE is a private eye hired by a gambler to look into a murder committed in his casino.

UNDER OATH

• "With a fast, alert screenplay woven from a Dashiell Hammett short story, Crosland's firm handling and the urbane performances of Lowe and Jean Dixon, (Mister Dynamite) was a good early example of the "Thin Man" type of sophisticated mystery."
  (Don Miller, B Movies)

FILM

• MISTER DYNAMITE
  (1935, Universal Pictures)
  67 minutes, black and white
  Based on the short story "On the Make" by Dashiell Hammett
  Screenplay by Harry Clork and Doris Malloy
  Directed by Alan Crosland
  Cinematography by George Robinson
  Produced by E.M. Asher
  Starring Edmund Lowe as MISTER DYNAMITE
  Also starring Jean Dixon, Victor Varconi, Esther Ralston, Verna Hillie, Minor Watson, Robert Gleckler, Jameson Thomas, Greta Meyer, Frank Lyman, G. Pat Collins, Bradley Page, James P. Burtis, Matt McHugh

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