Sky Murder

Sky Murder
Theatrical release poster
Directed byGeorge B. Seitz
Written byWilliam R. Lipman
Based onNick Carter (literary character)
Produced byFrederick Stephani
Starring
CinematographyCharles Lawton Jr.
Edited byGene Ruggiero
Music byDavid Snell
Production
company
Distributed byLoew's Inc.
Release date
  • September 27, 1940 (1940-09-27) (US)
Running time
72 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$212,000[1]
Box office$437,000[1]

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.[2] The film was part of a trilogy based on original screen stories starring the popular literary series character. In the heightened tensions prior to World War II, Hollywood produced many films in the spy film genre such as Sky Murder.[3]

Sky Murder followed Phantom Raiders (1940) and the first film in the series, Nick Carter, Master Detective (1939) and led to Sky Murder, the last of the Nick Carter series.[N 1]

  1. ^ a b "The Eddie Mannix Ledger". Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study (Los Angeles).
  2. ^ Pendo 1985, p. 18.
  3. ^ "Details: 'Sky Murder' (1940)", BFI, 2019. Retrieved: June 15, 2019.
  4. ^ Quinlan 2000, pp. 415–416.


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