Fast Company / Fast and Loose / Fast and Furious (DVD)

Who bumped off bibliophile Otto Brockler? Mystery turns a new page when book dealers and amateur sleuths Joel and Garda Sloane (Melvyn Douglas, Florence Rice) sift through clues and suspects in Fast Company, the first of three brisk, urbane Sloane films. When a rare Shakespeare manuscript is stolen, the stage is set for murder in Fast and Loose, with Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell as the Sloanes. "The comedy is jauntily paced, and profits as much from it's writing as it has from the deft light-comedy playing of Mr. Montgomery and Miss Russell" (Frank S. Nugent, the New York Times). Last, director Busby Berkeley turns his camera toward a bevy of bathing beauties and helms the clues and comedy of Fast and Furious. Franchot Tone and Ann Sothern play the Sloanes, rescuing a friend falsely accused of gunning down a shady beauty-pageant promoter. Three films, three sets of stars - all ideal fare for fans of the Thin Man series!

Starring: Melvyn Douglas, Franchot Tone, Robert Montgomery, Florence Rice, Rosalind Russell, Ann Sothern, Ruth Hussey, Reginald Owen, Claire Dodd, Lee Bowman, Ralph Morgan, Shepperd Strudwick, Louis Calhern, Etienne Girardot, Allyn Joslyn, Alan Dinehart, John Miljan, Nat Pendleton, Douglas Dumbrille, Jo Ann Sayers, Bernard Nedell, Mary Beth Hughes, Mary Howard, Joan Marsh, George Zucco, Cliff Clark, Anthony Allan, Tom Collins, James Burke, Minor Watson, Sidney Blackmer, Frank Orth, Donald Douglas, Dwight Frye, Margaret Roach, Thurston Hall, Ian Wolfe, Gladys Blake, Mary Forbes, Horace MacMahon, Granville Bates, Roger Converse, Leonard Carey, Constantin Bakaleinikoff, Natalie Garson, Bert Roach, Henry Sylvester, Claire Owen, Bill Cartledge, Will Stanton, James B. Carson, Paul "Tiny" Newlan, Ronnie Rondell, Harold Minjir, Jack Foss, Barbara Bedford, Jack Chapin, Tommy Bond, Sarah Edwards, Phillip Terry, Edward Hearn, Charles Sullivan, Sam Finn, George Chandler, Eddie Gribbon, Sidney Bracy, Buddy Messinger, George Noisom, Rube Demarest, Henry Roquemore, Tom O'Grady, Ernie Alexander, Inna Gest, Yvonne Du Val, Clarice Sherry, Patsy Bedell, Claire James, Muriel Barr, Lois Lindsay, Anne Borglum, Marilyn Hope, Lester Dorr, Carolyn Frasher, Raymond Turner, Art Belasco, Brick Sullivan, James Flavin, Richard Cramer, C. L. Sherwood, Tom Herbert, Harry Brown, Bill Irving, Jack Daley, Irene Coleman

Rating: NR