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Sky Murder is a 1940 detective film starring Walter Pidgeon as detective Nick Carter in his third and final outing for MGM as Nick Carter. The film was part of a trilogy based on original screen stories starring the popular literary series character.
Sky Murder: Directed by George B. Seitz. With Walter Pidgeon, Donald Meek, Karen Verne, Edward Ashley. A body is found in a locked airplane compartment and a German female refugee is a suspect. Passenger, detective Nick Carter, is convinced she didn't do it and works to solve the mysterious murder.
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- Comedy, Drama, Mystery
- George B. Seitz
- 1940-09-27
A body is found in a locked airplane compartment and a German female refugee is a suspect. Passenger detective Nick Carter is convinced she didn't do it and works to solve the mysterious murder. Pat Evans is a German expatriate who is loyal to her new adopted home, the United States.
A NEW NICK CARTER ADVENTURE. Overview. This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US entered the war, we're not told the villains are Nazis, but it's pretty clear anyway).
Sky Murder - (Original Trailer) Detective Nick Carter (Walter Pidgeon) tries to prove a beautiful immigrant innocent of murder in Sky Murder (1940).
- George B. Seitz, William Ryan
- Walter Pidgeon
44th film of 2024: Sky Murder (Seitz, 1940) the final film in MGM’s B series about private detective Nick Carter released in September pits Carter against fifth columnists, and domestic fascism in the form of the American Bund in Long Island.
"Sky Murder" is a fast-moving mystery involving subversives - Nazis no doubt. Ten years later and it would have been Communists. After a murder in a locked airplane compartment, a German refugee (Kaaren Verne) becomes a suspect, and Nick is sure she didn't do it.
