Directed by:
Lou BreslowScreenplay:
Lou BreslowCinematography:
Maury GertsmanComposer:
Hans J. SalterCast:
Dick Powell, Peggy Dow, Joyce Holden, Charles Drake, Charles Sullivan, Paul Bryar, Tom Dugan, Steve Darrell, Clarence Straight, Ted Stanhope, Steve Pendleton (more)Plots(1)
Dick Powell stars as a hardboiled PI with a taste for kibble in the over-the-top screwball comedy You Never Can Tell. When an eccentric tycoon leaves six million dollars to his faithful dog King, trustee Ellen Hathaway is besieged by fortune hunters when they learn she's next to inherit. After the German Shepherd is poisoned and Ellen's accused of the crime, King's spirit is granted special permission to go back to earth in human form and help clear his Ellen's name. Returning as private eye Rex Shepherd and aided by a former racehorse named Goldie, King puts his nose to the ground in a dogged attempt to sniff out his killer's name. (Kino Lorber)
(more)Cast
Dick Powell
USA
Best movies:
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
It Happened Tomorrow (1944)
Joyce Holden
USA
Charles Drake
USA
Best movies:
The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
Conflict (1945)
Showdown (1963)
Charles Sullivan
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Fury (1936)
Paul Bryar
USA
Best movies:
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Vertigo (1958)
Tom Dugan
Ireland
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
Steve Darrell
USA
Best movies:
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
The Proud Ones (1956)
Clarence Straight
USA
Best movies:
Miracle of Fatima (1952)
Spellbound (1945)
The Wrong Man (1956)
Ted Stanhope
USA
Best movies:
The Big Heat (1953)
High Noon (1952)
Three Little Words (1950)
Steve Pendleton
USA
Best movies:
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Kit Guard
Denmark
Best movies:
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Russ Conway
Canada
Best movies:
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
The Heiress (1949)
Roy Engel
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Spartacus (1960)
Olan Soule
USA
Best movies:
North by Northwest (1959)
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
Bernard Hepton
UK
Best movies:
Gandhi (1982)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Richard III (1955)
Jack Gargan
UK
Best movies:
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Frank Gerstle
USA
Best movies:
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
The Proud Ones (1956)
Bullitt (1968)
Margaret Bert
UK
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
Easter Parade (1948)
Jack Daly
USA
Best movies:
North by Northwest (1959)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)