Genius at Work (1946)



Rating: 4.9/10 77 votes
Runtime: 61
Language: English
Country: USA
Color: Black and White

Director: Leslie Goodwins
Cast:
Wally Brown ... Jerry Miles
Alan Carney ... Mike Strager
Anne Jeffreys ... Ellen Brent
Lionel Atwill ... Latimer Marsh / The Cobra
Bela Lugosi ... Stone
Marc Cramer ... Lt. Rick Campbell
Ralph Dunn ... Lt. Gilley

Two actors who star in a radio detective show find themselves pitted against a villain calling himself the Cobra, who has an affinity for torture chambers.
"RKO's prefabricated comedy team of Wally Brown and Alan Carney came to an abrupt end with Genius at Work. A slapsticky remake of 1937's Super Sleuth, the film casts the stars as Jerry and Mike, the stars of a weekly radio "unsolved mysteries" series. Ellen (Anne Jeffreys), the show's head writer, is given invaluable script advice by famed criminologist Marsh (Lionel Atwill). Little do our heroes or heroine realize that Marsh is actually The Cobra, a wily murderer who kills for the thrill of it. When Mike, Jerry and Ellen pay a visit to Marsh's baronial estate, the villain and his faithful servant Stone (a sadly wasted Bela Lugosi) do their best to kill off the troublesome radio sleuths with an abundance of old-dark-house gadgetry. But Mike and Jerry have the last laugh in a tension-filled climax. Though Genius at Work represented the last joint starring appearance of Brown and Carney, the two actors would be reunited as supporting characters in Disney's The Absent Minded Professor (1961)."


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