The read
Critics rate it 35 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 8m.
Synopsis
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which high school students are asked to submit a news story, Nancy Drew intercepts a real story assignment concerning 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.
Ratings
IMDb6.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 35 points higher than audiences do.
32 audience votes
Key crew
- William ClemensDirector
- Heinz RoemheldOriginal Music Composer
- Kenneth GametScreenplay
Cast
- Bonita GranvilleNancy Drew
- John LitelCarson Drew
- Frankie ThomasTed Nickerson
- Dickie JonesKiller Parkins
- Mary LeeMary Nickerson
- Larry WilliamsMiles Lambert
- Betty AmannEula Denning
- Thomas E. JacksonCity Editor Bostwick
- Olin HowlandPolice Sergeant Entwhistle
- Sheila BromleyBonnie Lucas
- Hooper AtchleyThe Chemist (uncredited)
- Irving BaconTracy (uncredited)
Stills
Themes
based on novel or bookdetectivereporternancy drewamateur sleuthteenage heroinemurder casedeath by poisoning