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The Fat Man
DANGER UNDER THE BIG TOP!
A innocent dentist is murdered and the only apparent motive seems to be to steal a set of dental x-rays. To the police it looks like an accident, but private eye Brad Runyan thinks there's more to it.
- Original title
- The Fat Man
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
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- Revenue
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CinemaSerf
Nov 27, 2023 · via TMDB
A dentist preparing to give a big speech at a conference makes the mistake of opening his door late one evening. Next thing he has been coshed and papped out of a fifteenth story window. Why? Well the rather easily pleased police conclude he succumbed to a fit of nerves, took some calming pills and... His long-term nursing assistant "Pat" (Julie London) doesn't buy that, though. She smells a rat and seeks out the help of the eponymous, renowned, investigator (J. Scott Smart). Can he put down his cutlery long enough to help her find out why she is being followed, what has happened both to her missing ex-con boyfriend "Roy" (Rock Hudson) and to $500,000 in stolen loot? In many ways this reminded me of a "Charlie Chan" mystery only here it's "Bill" (Clinton Sundberg) who takes the place of "No. 2 son" as the useful factotum who helps his boss to a conclusion in a circus. It takes just a bit too long to get going - a snappy start rather settles down a bit too much, but Smart does enough to keep the mystery rolling along with language that we'd never be allowed to use in a film nowadays. Sometimes I wonder how Rock Hudson ever achieved stardom. He was easy enough on the eye, but versatile he certainly wasn't! Watchable but you won't remember it.
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J. Scott Smart
Brad Runyan
Julie London
Pat Boyd
Rock Hudson
Roy Clark
Clinton Sundberg
Bill Norton
Jayne Meadows
Jane Adams
John Russell
Gene Gordon
Jerome Cowan
L.t. Stark
Emmett Kelly
Ed Deets
Robert Osterloh
Fletcher
Harry Lewis
Happy Stevens
Teddy Hart
Shifty
Tristram Coffin
Missing Persons Officer (uncredited)
Irving Glassberg
Director of Photography
Bud Westmore
Makeup Artist
William Castle
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