Nancy Drew... Reporter
Feb 18, 1939 | IMDB 6.2
68 min Watch NowComedy, Crime, Mystery
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.
MOVIE COMMENTS
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