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Private Detective 62

It's a pleasure to have your home wrecked by a man like him.

6.2(26)19331h 6m2

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.

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Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
French
  • drug addiction
  • murder
  • private detective
  • gambler
  • pre-code
  • detective agency
  • business partner
  • racket
  • club owner

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Behind the camera

Writers

Rian James

Produced in

United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR10 Jun 1933
    • TheatricalNew York City, New York6 Jul 1933

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Private Detective 62 was released on 10 June 1933.

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    CinemaSerf

    12/3/2022

    6/10

    They used to say that in the end, Samuel Goldwyn couldn't get arrested in Hollywood. Well the same is true here for "Donald Free" (William Powell). His government career went down in flames and now he can't get a job for love nor money. Until, that is, he alights on the dodgy "Peerless" detective agency where he is charged with a frame-up of "Janet" (Margaret Lindsay) who has fallen foul of a gambler who is the man b…

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