This being Thursday, it's time for another edition of Thursday Movie Picks, the blogathon run by Wandering Through the Shelves. This week's theme is "Female Investigators", which can either be cops or private investigators. In my case I decided to be a bit lazy and go with three movies from the 1930s that were each part of a different movie series featuring a woman solving mysteries. I'm pretty certain I've mentioned all three series before at one point or another in the Thursday Movie Picks, but I don't think I've used these specific movies:
Murder on a Honeymoon (1935). Edna May Oliver returns for her final outing as schoolteacher-turned detective Hildegarde Withers, this time solving a murder that occurs on a flight from Los Angeles to Santa Catalina Island. James Gleason also returns as Oliver's foil, long-suffering police detective Oscar Piper. Among the suspects are Lola Lane and Leo G. Carroll.
Torchy Runs for Mayor (1939). Glenda Farrell returns for her final outing as investigative journalist Torchy Blane, this time investigating corruption in the mayor's office, much to the distress of her long-time boyfriend, police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane). Tom Kennedy also returns as beat cop Gahagan. This one has a twist in that after Torchy's articles bring down the old mayor, Steve puts Torchy forward as a candidate as a lark, only for her to take it seriously.
Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter (1939). This is the third of four movies featuring Bonita Granville as teenaged detective Nancy Drew. In this installment, she follows her lawyer father (John Litel) out into the country when a cousin is accused of a murder that both she and dad knows the cousin didn't committ. Nancy also has a long-suffering boyfriend, Ted (Frankie Thomas), and he too comes along for the ride.
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