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The Runaround

The Runaround

1946Movie⏱️ 1h 26mApproved
ComedyMystery
6.5
IMDB Rating
133 votes

Maverick private eyes Kildane and Quayle leave a large agency to work on their own. Their first assignment (pirated from the old firm): retrieve eloping heiress Penelope Hampton, in competition with their former boss Prentiss. Kil...

Director
Charles Lamont
Writers
Sam Hellman, Arthur T. Horman, Walter Wise
Stars
Ella Raines, Rod Cameron, Broderick Crawford
Release Date
June 4, 1946
Language
English
Country
United States
💬 4
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Ella Raines
Ella Raines
as Penelope 'Annabelle' Hampton
Rod Cameron
Rod Cameron
as Eddie J. Kildane
Broderick Crawford
Broderick Crawford
as Louis Prentiss
Frank McHugh
Frank McHugh
as Wally Quayle
George Cleveland
George Cleveland
as Feenan the cabbie
Joan Shawlee
Joan Shawlee
as Mamie 'Baby' Willis
Samuel S. Hinds
Samuel S. Hinds
as Norman Hampton
Joe Sawyer
Joe Sawyer
as Hutchins
Nana Bryant
Nana Bryant
as Mrs. Mildred Hampton
Dave Willock
Dave Willock
as Hubert 'Billy' Willis

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1
Color
Black and White
Filming Location
Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA
Production
Universal Pictures

🏷️ Keywords

missing daughterheiressprivate eyerivalryreward

🎯 Categories

ComedyMystery

⭐ Featured Review

Good for a rainy afternoon
by robert-temple-12008-02-07
6/10

"This is a very amusing B picture, involving competing detectives (Rod Cameron and Broderick Crawford) on the same case and a boy-meets-girl and they-spat-because-they-love-each-other story. Ella Raines is the gal, who was the Hollywood actress with the most striking 'bedroom eyes' in the business. (Either that or she was part cat, take your pick.) Raines is witty and amusing, and manages a fine droll delivery of such lines as: 'Don't they have paved roads in Indiana?' (That question has never been answered, even today, apart from the ring road round Indianapolis, which..."

📖 Synopsis

Maverick private eyes Kildane and Quayle leave a large agency to work on their own. Their first assignment (pirated from the old firm): retrieve eloping heiress Penelope Hampton, in competition with their former boss Prentiss. Kil...