Thursday, September 5, 2024

Leave It to the Irish (1944)

A bright and breezy private investigation crime case.

Terry Moran (James Dunn) is a private investigator, who is dating Nora (Wanda McKay) the daughter of police chief Tim O'Brien (Arthur Loft), is engaged by Mrs Hamilton (Barbara Wooddell) to find out who killed her husband who owned a fur importer. 

Moran and Nora, after a number of mis-steps and hijinks, unravel a case of stolen goods, gang land involvement (Jack La Rue) and, of course, murder.

This is fairly generic crime B-movie with the usual tropes and pacing with the plot relies a little too much on coincidences, but is all very competently done and an enjoyable watch.