She Gets Her Man (1945)

Wacky Joan Davis is the daughter of a famous female detective. A blow-gun murderer has dared the mayor to appear at the Neptune Club. Reporter William Gargan is covering the event. Immediately there is another murder. The town demands the police chief's resignation. They yearn for another chief like Ma Pilkington. Her daughter lives in Horse Trot, NV, and the editor sends Gargan to bring her back. The mayor (Russell Hicks) gives her to the city. The police chief assigns Leon Errol to help her. She is announced as the next person to be murdered at the Club. She thinks the murder was committed with a camera, so they are prohibited, but one man smuggles one in. Vivian Austin is Gargan's girlfriend, who is jealous of Davis. We see the major unscrewing an implement, and the reporter is clean, so her theory blows up. But she and Errol see a sword cane in a pawn shop and figure out that the mayor might be the guy. She gets his cane from his office, but he is dead in his chair. ("He killed himself just to confuse me.")

Errol mentions that at the Miracle Theater they are doing a play that uses a blowgun, in which Austin is starring. They mess up the play and get kicked out. Finally Gargan has to tell her to go back to Horse Trot, and that he is going to marry Austin. In dejection she prepares to go home. The town brings in a famous detective. Davis and Errol see Maybelle and her partner (Milburn Stone) acting furtively at the airport, just before another person is killed, and they follow her back to the theater. They sneak in, and there follows a madcap, slapstick sequence as they search the darkened building, the type scene in which Errol excelled. Stone's gang bursts into the theater, sparking a vigorous chase scene and a donnybrook fight. She finds out that the doctor was the actually killer.

Errol ends up being a sergeant, and Davis returns to Horse Trot.




Leon Errol


Austin