Campus Sleuth (1948)
4/10
Clumsy exit to a forgotten series.
12 April 2024
Warning: Spoilers
The seventh and final entry in the brief "Teen-agers" series (although there was one unrelated film with the cast called "Music Man") Is a rather dull murder mystery with music, set around the discovery and disappearance of a body, and how it ties into campus administration. Awkward Warren Mills discovers the body, loses it, finds it again, and so on and so on.

Donald MacBride, who played the town mayor in the previous film, is Mills' detective father who seems to think he's a Caucasian Charlie Chan in his arrogance and the way he treats his son. There's several dark characters thrown in to cast suspicion on them, and all that succeeds in doing is creates frustration. The musical numbers throws the short film further off balance. Freddie Stewart and June Preisser certainly aren't Mickey and Judy.
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