Thursday, May 2, 2019

Phantom Patrol (1936)

A suave crime-boss Dapper Dan Geary (Harry Worth) on the run from the police heads up to Canada where he discovers a famous crime writer is already up there who bears an uncanny resemblance...

Dapper Dan thus pretends to be the crime writer (who for some unfathomable reason they don't bump off) and manages to fool the local Mountie Jim (Kermit Maynard) and his girl Doris (Joan Barclay) who even ends up doing short-hand for the "writer".

Things get ever more complicated when a gang of local hoodlums also hide out with Dapper Dan. Despite a series of ridiculous coincidences Mountie Jim is rather slow to get suspicious about Dapper Dan...

Not a bad film which doesn't hang around though the plot stretches credibility a bit far at times. Mountie Jim is a clean-cut hero and the film doesn't lack for action. Harry Worth does well playing two roles.