A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen

1942 "Ellery Queen untangles a web of mystery!"

A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen

5.6 | 1h10m | NR | en | Mystery

A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Ellery Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.

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5.6 | 1h10m | NR | en | Mystery

Synopsis

A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Ellery Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.

Cast

William Gargan , Margaret Lindsay , John Litel

Director

James S. Brown Jr.

Producted By

Columbia Pictures , Larry Darmour Productions

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Cast

William Gargan

as Ellery Queen

[1956] The Rawhide Years [1948] Waterfront at Midnight [1946] Strange Impersonation [1946] Murder in the Music Hall [1946] Behind Green Lights [1946] Till the End of Time [1945] She Gets Her Man [1945] Song of the Sarong [1945] The Bells of St. Mary's

Margaret Lindsay

as Nikki Porter

[1963] Tammy and the Doctor [1960] Please Don't Eat the Daisies [1959] Jet Over The Atlantic [1948] B.F.'s Daughter [1947] Cass Timberlane [1947] The Vigilantes Return [1946] Her Sister's Secret [1945] Adventures of Rusty [1945] Scarlet Street

John Litel

as Norman Hadley

[1957] Decision at Sundown [1957] The Hired Gun [1956] Comanche [1956] Runaway Daughters [1956] The Wild Dakotas [1955] Double Jeopardy [1955] Texas Lady [1955] The Kentuckian [1954] Sitting Bull