Actress Bonita Granville wasn't a raving beauty, but she was spunky and she could act circles around other dames. "Nancy Drew, Reporter" was the second of the four Nancy Drew B-movies that she appeared in for Warner Brothers. This crime thriller about a wrongly accused murderer is fairly average, but "Case of the Stuttering Bishop" director William Clemens keeps the action moving at a breakneck pace. This is one of the B-pictures that Bryan Foy produced for the studio and it looks polished with several Warner Brothers contract players, one of whom is Joan Leslie. Leslie went on to become a major Warner Brothers starlet in movies like "Sergeant York" and "Yankee Doodle Dandy." The biggest mystery in this fast-paced yarn is the murder weapon, something called sodium ferrinide that contains poison and is used to kill a woman. Mind you, the murder occurs off-screen before the narrative unfolds. One of the most memorable lines is Nancy's description of a reporter: "A reporter has the right to do things an ordinary citizen shouldn't."