The Mysterious Mr. Valentine
Year: 1946
Genre: Crime
Studio: Republic Pictures
Director: Philip Ford
Cast: William Henry, Linda Stirling, Virginia Christine, Thomas E. Jackson, Barbara Woodell, Kenne Duncan
Crew: Milton Raison (Writer), Richard L. Van Enger (Editor), Donald H. Brown (Producer), Philip Ford (Director), Mort Glickman (Original Music Composer), Alfred S. Keller (Director of Photography)
Runtime: 56 minutes
Release: Sep 03, 1946
IMDb: 4.30/10 by 11 users
Popularity: 1
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0

"Janet" (Linda Stirling) gets a puncture and seeks the assistance of "Armstrong" (Tristram Coffin) incurring the chagrin of that man's rather jealous wife "Rita" (Barbara Wooddell). To make matters worse, she now drives off in the wife's car only to collide with another car and then find herself embroiled in a previous, and fatal, hit-and-run with the partner of the husband of the wife of the car she is driving. Still with me? Now she engages the help of PI "Morgan" (William Henry) to try to get to the bottom of an internecine mystery that involves fraud, insurance and mysterious women. It packs quite a lot of plot into an hour, but the acting and the dialogue is banal at best with very basic production values that smack more of television than cinema. It probably looked OK at a drive-in when the audience maybe had better things to do, and it really is pretty instantly forgettable fayre.