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Home Sweet Homicide (1946)

Home Sweet Homicide poster
Directed by
Lloyd Bacon
Genre
crime film, mystery film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
NR
Rating
4.5 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Three kids decide to solve a local murder mystery themselves. They help their mother, a mystery writer, and a detective to catch the killer.

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What happens

Home Sweet Homicide is a 1946 American comedy mystery film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Peggy Ann Garner, Randolph Scott and Lynn Bari. It was based on the 1944 eponymous mystery novel by Craig Rice. Though he would make a further 39 films, Home Sweet Homicide is the second-to-last non-western film of Randolph Scott's career. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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