Kid Glove Killer

Kid Glove Killer
Directed byFred Zinnemann
Screenplay byAllen Rivkin
John C. Higgins
Story byJohn C. Higgins
Produced byJack Chertok
StarringVan Heflin
Marsha Hunt
Lee Bowman
Samuel S. Hinds
CinematographyPaul C. Vogel
Edited byRalph E. Winters
Music byDavid Snell
Daniele Amfitheatrof
Lennie Hayton
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • April 1942 (1942-04)
Running time
74 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$199,000[1]
Box office$550,000 (initial release)[1]

Kid Glove Killer is a 1942 American crime film, starring Van Heflin as a forensic scientist investigating the murder of a mayor. The B film, the feature-length directorial debut of Fred Zinnemann, was an expanded version of the 1938 Crime Does Not Pay short subject "They're Always Caught".

  1. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.