Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
2025 · Thriller · Mystery
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Film / 1932
Miss Pinkerton
Directed by
Lloyd Bacon
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues as she tends to Wynn's elderly aunt Julia. Jokingly given the 'rank' of Miss Pinkerton, after the famous detective agency, Adams probes into the mystery, but not before a second death.
The story
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues as she tends to Wynn's elderly aunt Julia. Jokingly given the 'rank' of Miss Pinkerton, after the famous detective agency, Adams probes into the mystery, but not before a second death.
Cast
Joan BlondellNurse Georgia Adams aka Miss Pinkerton
George BrentPolice Inspector Patten
Ruth HallPaula Brent
John WrayHugo
Elizabeth PattersonJuliet Mitchell
C. Henry GordonDr. Stuart
Holmes HerbertArthur Glenn
Mary DoranFlorence Lenz
Blanche FridericiMary
Mae MadisonSecond Nurse
Nigel De BrulierCoroner James A. Clemp
Eulalie JensenSuperintendent of Nurses Miss Gibbons
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