Nick Carter, Master Detective (film)

This article is about the first of three films starring Walter Pidgeon. For the original radio program, see Nick Carter, Master Detective. For the second film, see Phantom Raiders. For the third film, see Sky Murder.
Nick Carter, Master Detective
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Directed byJacques Tourneur
Written byBertram Millhauser
Based onoriginal story by Bertram Millhauser and Harold Buckley
Produced byLucien Hubbard
StarringWalter Pidgeon
Rita Johnson
CinematographyCharles Lawton Jr.
Edited byElmo Veron
Music byEdward Ward
Production
company
Distributed byLoew's Inc.
Release date
  • December 13, 1939 (1939-12-13) (New York)
Running time
59 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$379,000[1]
Box office$456,000[1]

Nick Carter, Master Detective is a 1939 film directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Walter Pidgeon. It is based original stories created for the screen featuring the Nick Carter character from the long-running literary series.

Pidgeon and Donald Meek went on to reprise their roles in two sequels, Phantom Raiders (1940) and Sky Murder (1941).[N 1]

  1. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  2. ^ Quinlan 2000, pp. 415–416.


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