CHICK CARTER, DETECTIVE
15 CHAPTER SERIAL
1946

Chick Carter, Detective is a 1946 Columbia film serial. Columbia could not afford the rights to produce a Nick Carter serial so they made Chick Carter, Detective about his son instead. This was based on the radio series Chick Carter, Boy Detective. A Nick Carter series was being made by MGM.

PLOT:
Nightclub owner Joe is leaned on by rival Nick to repay the loan he got to open his club since Nick wants to close up shop and move on. Joe is unable to come up with the amount of money needed so Nick suggests giving him the "Blue Diamond" a
supposedly cursed necklace. Joe refuses and instead puts it in the paper that his singer will be wearing the necklace the next night. This sets in motion a series of plots and counter plots that leads to the theft of the diamond. The police are called in and Lt Chick Carter is put on the case.

CAST:
Lyle Talbot ... Chick Carter
Douglas Fowley ... Rusty Farrell
Julie Gibson ... Sherry Marvin
Pamela Blake ... Ellen Dale
Eddie Acuff ... Spud Warner - photographer
Robert Elliott ... Dan Rankin
George Meeker ... Nick Pollo
Leonard Penn ... Vasky
Charles King ... Joe Carney
Jack Ingram ... Mack
Joel Friedkin ... Jules Hoyt
Eddie Parker ... Frank Sharp

CHAPTERS:
1. Chick Carter Takes Over
2. Jump to Eternity
3. Grinding Wheels
4. Chick Carter Trapped
5. Out of Control
6. Chick Carter's Quest
7. Chick Carter's Frame-up
8. Chick Carter Gives Chase
9. Shadows in the Night
10. Run to Earth
11. Hurled Into Space
12. Chick Carter Faces Death
13. Rendezvous with Murder
14. Chick Carter Sets a Trap
15. Chick Carter Wins Out

RUNNING TIME: 225 MIN