Released on February 18 of 1939 in the USA, 'Nancy Drew. Reporter' (1939), a film by William Clemens.
Maybe the plot was also a bit less implausible and full of marvellously astronomical co-incidences than most of MW's stories were too! And to top it all the DVD only cost £3, a nice production from Alpha Video. Cast Bonita Granville Nancy Drew John Litel Carson Drew Frankie Thomas Ted Nickerson Mary Lee Mary Nickerson Dickie Jones Killer Parkins Thomas E. Here is a non-exhaustive list of actors appearing in 'Nancy Drew.
It's a highly enjoyable romp in the best family Warner Bros tradition, even with that juvenile Vaudeville/Swing scene in it - it's not something that I can easily relate to! Having read most of the "classic" Nancy Drew books ghosted by Mildred Wirt (and the few by Walter Karig), I still think it was a perfect part for Bonita Granville as the teenage heroine (John Litel was a litel stocky as her Dad). Watch Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase on DIRECTV. It all depends on personal preferences of course, but if this is an ancient cheap B pic how come 67 minutes simply flew by? I happened to watch Blazing Saddles for the first time the night before and found myself continually counting down the time remaining on the VCR clock. 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.
It didn't disappoint, I knew exactly what I was going to get and did. 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. I watched this film last Saturday night, thinking it's been a long time since I saw this or the other 3 in the series.