Secret Philadelphia (A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful and Obscure)
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Featuring Shemp Howard (Solo)
10.25 min. (Short Subject)
A detective school graduate (Jesse Block) investigates the murder of the head doctor at a sanitarium, with assistance from a simple-minded nurse (Eve Sully). Incompetence reigns, and so do the resident loons, so the murdered man comes back to solve his own murder.
Shemp Howard is one-half of a pair of deliverymen with an invisible piano.
Shemp received $40 for this bit role.
Jesse Block
Detective Block
Eve Sully
Nurse
Donald MacBride
I. Peek
Shemp Howard
1st piano mover
Fred Harper
Jarvis
Charles Howard
Napoleon
Unidentified THE WRONG, WRONG TRAIL 1
Peek's assistant
Unidentified THE WRONG, WRONG TRAIL 2
2nd piano mover
Unidentified THE WRONG, WRONG TRAIL 3
Dr. Jordan
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