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The teen sleuth is at it again! This was Bonita Granville's second turn as Nancy, the high school reporter who was the subject of four Warner Bros films in the late 1930s. This time she's helping a young woman accused of murder. When Nancy persuades her loyal neighbor Ted to help her, it's only a matter of time before the identity of the real killer is revealed. Directed by William Clemens (the man behind the memorable Falcon series), and starring the likes of John Litel, Dickie Jones, and Frankie Thomas, this movie is a feisty little mystery that will have you rooting for Nancy to solve another one!
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Nancy Drew... Reporter (1939)
68 min
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.