The Caribbean Mystery

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James Dunn, Edward Ryan, and Sheila Ryan in The Caribbean Mystery (1945)

Smith (James Dunn), a Brooklyn police detective, arrives on a Caribbean island chasing a murderer ... and wades his way through quicksand, swamps, alligators, corpses, clues, unusual suspect... Read allSmith (James Dunn), a Brooklyn police detective, arrives on a Caribbean island chasing a murderer ... and wades his way through quicksand, swamps, alligators, corpses, clues, unusual suspects and a frisky femme fatale before nabbing the killer.Smith (James Dunn), a Brooklyn police detective, arrives on a Caribbean island chasing a murderer ... and wades his way through quicksand, swamps, alligators, corpses, clues, unusual suspects and a frisky femme fatale before nabbing the killer.

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Final film of Virginia Walker.

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Mr. Smith: Shall we talk business?
Gov. Gerald McCracken Sr.: I'm still puzzled about the park you took a walk in. We have no park here.
Mr. Smith: Sure you have. Right on the edge of town.
Col. Lane: What on earth is he talking about?
Dr. Rene Marcel: I think he means the Henry Morgan swamp.
Gov. Gerald McCracken Sr.: You went for a walk in the swamp?
Mr. Smith: Well, you wouldn't call it walking exactly. Wading is more like it. In one spot I sank into mud up to my knees and had a heck of a time getting out.
Gov. Gerald McCracken Sr.: Good heavens, man! You might have lost your life. That's quicksand
Mr. Smith: Well, what do you know! You fellas ought to build a railing around a spot like that. It's dangerous!
Col. Lane: Possibly if we had the railing you mentioned, Mr. Smith, eight people might be alive today, eh Governor?
Gov. Gerald McCracken Sr.: I assume you are joking, Colonel. The entire swamp is one big quicksand.
Mr. Smith: Is that what got those missing people? The mud?
Col. Lane: Or alligators. Or other forms of reptilian life that inhabit the swamp.
Mr. Smith: Then it's no mystery at all. Well, well. Maybe its just as well it doesn't amount to anything. These swamps and those alligators they baffle me. In Flatbush, the only wildlife we have are wolves. Those alligators are pretty tough, eh?
Col. Lane: They can be very dangerous. They have been known to take a man's leg off with one bite.
Gov. Gerald McCracken Sr., Dr. Rene Marcel: [Shows them a bullet] Before or after they shoot you?

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Version of Murder in Trinidad (1934)

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5/10

A flatfoot from Flatbush

James Dunn stars in The Caribbean Mystery playing a private detective from Brooklyn on a case. in the island tropics. Several folks have come down to this island paradise have disappeared usually after going in to a nasty samp.

Given the date I thought this might have something to do with the war. But it is only treasure hunters who are making sure no one gets the pirate loot they've uncovered..

The mystery here is who is the inside man they have in the territorial governor's office. But it's revealed soon enough before the climax.

Dunn who was off the Oscar he won for A Tree Grows In Brooklyn didn't get a real good comeback bounce from the Oscar. He was in mostly routine action films like this. At Fox he was doing leads in the early 30s and co-starred with Shirley Temple in some films.

Not a bad film from 20th Century Fox's B picture unit, but strictly routine.