X Marks the Spot
BLACK MARKET CZAR!...Exchanging human lives for blood-soaked Profit!
1942 | 55m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | George Sherman |
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| Writer: | Richard Murphy, Stuart Palmer |
| Staring: |
| A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police officer father is killed in the line of duty. Soon his prime suspect is murdered as well, and he finds himself framed for the crime. As more witnesses get murdered, he finds himself on the run from both the police and former Prohibition violators who seem to have found a new racket. | |
| Release Date: | Nov 04, 1942 |
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| Director: | George Sherman |
| Writer: | Richard Murphy, Stuart Palmer |
| Genres: | Mystery |
| Keywords | private detective, racketeer |
| Production Companies | Republic Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 28, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Damian O'Flynn | Eddie Delaney |
| Helen Parrish | Linda Ward |
| Dick Purcell | Police Lt. William 'Bill' Decker |
| Neil Hamilton | John J. Underwood |
| Jack La Rue | Marty Clark |
| Robert Homans | Timothy J. Delaney |
| Anne Jeffreys | Lulu |
| Dick Wessel | Dizzy |
| Esther Muir | Bonnie Bascomb |
| Joe Kirk | Dizzy's Fellow Henchman (as Joseph Kirk) |
| Edna Harris | Billie |
| Fred Kelsey | Police Officer Martin |
| Vince Barnett | Waiter at Diner |
| Jane Allen | Jitterbug (uncredited) |
| Sam Bernard | Cabbie (uncredited) |
| Edmund Cobb | Officer Riley (uncredited) |
| Chester Conklin | Vagrant (uncredited) |
| Martin Faust | Foreman (uncredited) |
| Jack Gardner | Hospital Intern (uncredited) |
| Richard Landry | Jitterbug (uncredited) |
| Sam Lufkin | Policeman (uncredited) |
| Peggy Lynn | Jitterbug (uncredited) |
| Jerry Mandy | Janitor (uncredited) |
| Charles McAvoy | Officer McAvoy (uncredited) |
| Frank O'Connor | Policeman (uncredited) |
| Frank Marlowe | Truck Driver (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| George Sherman | Director |
| Mauri Grashin | Short Story |
| Richard Murphy | Screenplay |
| Stuart Palmer | Screenplay |
| Robert T. Shannon | Short Story |
| Name | Title |
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| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
| Year | Month | Avg | Max | Min |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
| 2024 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
| 2024 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 2024 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
| 2024 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 1 |
| 2024 | 9 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
| 2024 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| 2024 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 2024 | 12 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
Trending Position
When his pop is gunned down by some undesirables, PI "Eddie Delaney" (Damian O'Flynn) recruits feisty radio presenter "Linda Ward" (Helen Parrish) and local police lieutenant "Bill Decker" (Dick Purcell) to help him get to the bottom of things. What he didn't realise - nor did I, for that matter - w ... as that there was an huge market during WWII for rubber. That meant tyres were almost literally worth their weight in greenbacks and somehow his father had got mixed up in some sort of racketeering. Jack La Rue is quite menacing as "Marty", the supposedly reformed night club owner firmly in their sights, but when he is bumped off, too - and all the clues start to point at "Eddie" the mystery deepens and quickens. This film does lack much by way of a decent script, or plot innovation - but the story doesn't hang about and it's certainly at the better end of the afternoon B-feature spectrum that flew by.