Nancy Drew... Reporter

1939 · 68 MIN · IMDB 6.5 · 1,510 VOTES · DIR. William Clemens

Nancy Drew... Reporter poster

Overview

While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.

ComedyCrimeMystery1930s

Dialogue Timeline — 987 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:54 Listen, let me be wrong for once. Write a new head.
00:02:58 What did you get?
00:05:36 ...until I happened to run across a scientific magazine in my aunt's library.
00:07:37 - What's the verdict? - The girl's being held for trial. Murder.
00:10:51 Maybe I'm in the wrong branch of the service.
00:13:04 What makes you think that?
00:15:25 Well, fine thing. It's practically a menace to civilization.
00:17:29 But my birthday isn't for two months yet.
00:19:22 You never saw a real newspaperman without his hat on, did you?
00:21:42 Think hard. Maybe you can remember what you did with it.
00:25:37 - I'd better investigate. - Well, you were just hearing things.
00:29:03 A person who fails to live up to his promise is a weakling.
00:30:50 - I said a cauliflower ear. - What did you say?
00:33:47 Soxie Anthens. Who's that?
00:36:20 All right, champ, but don't get sore. Everything's all right.
00:39:41 All set.
00:42:32 Oh, I'm going home and getting me a cookie.
00:44:38 - Would you settle for a glass of milk? - Well, we might go that far.
00:47:48 Soxie, Soxie, don't.
00:50:14 - Oh, oh, dear. - We'll be in for life after this.
00:55:08 Sure, I'm sure. He's in Chicago on a radio interview on how to avoid crime.
00:57:03 Well, 815 is occupied, Mrs. Plopper.
01:01:54 - We've gotta get out. - Yeah, I know.
01:05:42 Ted, they're getting away.

Cast & Characters

Bonita Granville Nancy Drew John Litel Carson Drew Frankie Thomas Ted Nickerson Dickie Jones Killer Parkins Mary Lee Mary Larry Williams Miles Lambert Betty Amann Eula Denning Thomas E. Jackson Bostwick - City Editor Olin Howland Police Sgt. Entwhistle Sheila Bromley Bonnie Lucas

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed987
Dialogue density14.5 lines / min
First line00:00:54
Final line01:05:42

Production Record

DirectorWilliam Clemens
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes1,510