Taglines: These diamonds belong to Uncle Sam!
Blue, White and Perfect movie storyline. Private Detective Michael, in pre-war America, in compliance with the wishes of his girlfriend, Merle Garland, takes a job at an airplane factory, and immediately the diamonds used for special instruments are stolen in what Shayn suspects is an inside job. THe trail leads him to a dress manufacturer who is a Nazi agent, smuggling diamonds to Hawaii as dress buttons. On the boat to Hawaii, Shayne finds that an old friend, Helen Shaw, is working with the smugglers. After he and a federal agent, Juan Arturo O’Hara, quit chasing each other and, alter trapped by the gang, the case is solved and the smugglers brought to justice.
Blue, White and Perfect is a 1942 American mystery film directed by Herbert I. Leeds and starring Lloyd Nolan, Mary Beth Hughes, and Helene Reynolds. It is part of Twentieth Century Fox’s Michael Shayne film series. The basis of the plot came from Blue, White, and Perfect, a six-part serialized story by Borden Chase that was published in Argosy magazine. The story was subsequently published as Diamonds of Death, a paperback novel. The film sets were designed by the art directors Lewis Creber and Richard Day.
Blue, White and Perfect (1942)
Directed by: Herbert I. Leeds
Starring: Lloyd Nolan, Mary Beth Hughes, Helene Reynolds, George Reeves, Steven Geray, Henry Victor, Curt Bois, Marie Blake, Mae Marsh, Frank Orth, Ivan Lebedeff, Wade Boteler
Screenplay by: Borden Chase, Samuel G. Engel, Brett Halliday
Cinematography by: Glen MacWilliams
Film Editing by: Alfred Day
Costume Design by: Herschel McCoy
Set Decoration by: Thomas Little
Art Direction by: Lewis H. Creber, Richard Day
Music by: Cyril J. Mockridge
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: January 6, 1942
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