Leave It to the Irish

1944
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1h 11m

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James Dunn, Jack La Rue, Wanda McKay, and Dick Purcell in Leave It to the Irish (1944)

Private Investigator Terry Moran, who is in love with Nora O'Brien the daughter of Police Detective Tim O'Brien, is hired by Mrs. Hamilton to solve the murder of her husband, a fur dealerPrivate Investigator Terry Moran, who is in love with Nora O'Brien the daughter of Police Detective Tim O'Brien, is hired by Mrs. Hamilton to solve the murder of her husband, a fur dealerPrivate Investigator Terry Moran, who is in love with Nora O'Brien the daughter of Police Detective Tim O'Brien, is hired by Mrs. Hamilton to solve the murder of her husband, a fur dealer

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James Dunn

Terry Moran

Wanda McKay

Nora O'Brien

Jack La Rue

Rocky Rockwell

Dick Purcell

Pat Burke

Arthur Loft

Chief of Police J. P. O'Brien

Barbara Wooddell

Mrs. James Hamilton
(as Barbara Woodell)

Vince Barnett

Barney Baker

Joseph DeVillard

Henchman Gus
(as Joe DeVillard)

Olaf Hytten

The Hamilton Butler

Eddie Allen

Slim

Dick Scott

Biff

Ted Stanhope

Fred Aldrich

Policeman
(uncredited)

Adolph Faylauer

Night Club Patron
(uncredited)

Donald Kerr

Petey - Cab Driver
(uncredited)

Ralph Lewis

Minor Role
(uncredited)

Robert Locke Lorraine

Club Patron
(uncredited)

George Morrell

Hamilton Company Night Watchman
(uncredited)

Director
- William Beaudine
Writers
- Eddie Davis
- Tim Ryan
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Trivia
Dick Purcell died of a heart attack one week after completing shooting on this film.

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4/10

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This film from Monogram Pictures was the last film done by James Dunn before his Oscar winning role in A Tree Grows In Brooklyn and for his old studio of 20th Century Fox. Dunn's problems with alchohol had brought him down to poverty row Monogram. Still with the effortless Irish charm for which he was known for Dunn breezes through Leave It To The Irish as a private detective going out with Wanda McKay a police detective's daughter.

Arthur Loft plays McKay's father and he'd much rather see his daughter involved with Dick Purcell his detective sidekick. Marrying a PI would bring disgrace on the family name.

That gets exacerbated when Dunn is hired by Barbara Woodell to look into her husband's murder. The husband was involved in a heist racket with club owner Jack LaRue.

Dunn saunters through the part, one he had done many times over at Fox and other studios. Still with Monogram's lack of production values the film looks as cheap as it is.

James Dunn's career would get a kick start with that great Oscar winning performance in A Tree Grows In Brooklyn. But sadly enough it didn't last for him. Leave It To The Irish is an easy to take film which Dunn carries with charm.