Web Site Logo

This website is made possible, in part, by displaying a few online advertisements to our visitors.
Please consider supporting us by disabling your ad blocker for this site.
Released March 07, 1941
Featuring Shemp Howard (Solo)
Universal
63.15 min. (Feature Film)

The St. Louis Robins arrive in town for the World Series against New York, and the Robins' star pitcher Tommy "Mr. Dynamite" Thornton (Lloyd Nolan) takes in the sites by visiting a street carnival in Manhattan's Little Baghdad. A beautiful girl (Irene Hervey) working in a pitching concession catches Tommy's eye, and he follows her into a theater tent featuring a ventriloquist act. A man she meets is stabbed to death during the performance, and Thornton follows her when she escapes. Did she commit the murder, or can Dynamite believe her story that the man was her partner, killed by enemy spies? Tommy is determined to find out, and finds himself also implicated in the murder, uncovering a plot by underground Axis agents to destroy American factories.

Shemp appears briefly as 'Abdullah,' a phony Arab working an equally phony fortune-telling concession at the carnival.

Bookmark and Share  
Avg. Rating: [7.00/10]
 
MR. DYNAMITE on IMDb

Lloyd Nolan
Tommy 'Mr. Dynamite' Thornton

Irene Hervey
Vicki Martin

Ann Gillis
Joey / Abigail

Robert Homans
Police Captain

Sam Harris
Granville

Shemp Howard
Abdullah

Evelyn Selbie
Madame Smetana

Isabel Randolph
Abdullah's customer

Kernan Cripps
Detective

William Ruhl
Detective

Virginia Engels
Pretty girl

Suzanne Ridgeway
Pretty girl

Kay Leslie
Pretty girl

Babe London
Fat girl in pitching cage

Cliff Nazarro
Man fumbling with keys

Bobby Barber
Little man

Frank Yaconelli
Armenian man


John Rawlins
Director

Marshall Grant
Associate Producer

Stanley Rubin
Story and Screenplay

John Boyle
Director of Photography

Ted Kent
Film Editor

Jack Otterson
Art Director

Ralph M. DeLacy
Assoc. Art Director

Russell A. Gausman
Set Decoration

Bernard B. Brown
Sound Supervisor

Jess Moulin
Sound Technician

Hans J. Salter
Musical Director

Charles S. Gould
2nd Unit Director


















FAIR USE NOTICE: This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We make such material available in an effort to advance awareness and understanding of the issues involved. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information please visit: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission directly from the copyright owner.