John J. Malone Mystery Double Feature movie Jerry Beall

Jerry Beall

With the law closing in on they find themselves in the town of Eminence Hill

is unrated and full of more blood-splattered thrills and chills

he is covertly working a quiet nightshift in a gas service station to make ends meet

and Elvira is killed

John J. Malone Mystery Double Feature movie Jerry BeallMurder becomes a laughing matter in two screwball mysteries based on the comic misadventures of attorney John J. Malone, one of the most popular fictional sleuths of the '40s and '50s. The creation of famed mystery writer Craig Rice, Malone played detective in 11 novels and 39 short stories as well as on radio, TV and film, and this madcap big screen collection spotlights two of his best. In Having Wonderful Crime (1945), Malone (Pat O'Brien) helps