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Murder with Pictures

Murder with Pictures

SEP 24, 1936 · 69 MIN · DIR. CHARLES BARTON

CrimeMystery

Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for the news men where Murdock romances a mystery woman who confronted Girard in front of him, but Murdock's fiancée Hester shows up. After they return to his apartment, have a fight, and she leaves, the mystery woman slips in and begs for his help. Police Inspector Bacon and the cops show up, looking for the mystery woman; Murdock hides her. Murdock goes with the cops to discuss the murder the woman is suspected of. Bacon explains (in flashback) how some photogs were setting up a shot with Girard and Redfield. When the flashbulbs popped, Redfield keeled over dead and the woman, Meg Archer, fled while the newsmen ran out to phone their papers. The newsmen (who were rounded up later as thoroly as possible) are taken into police custody, except for Murdock (who wasn't at the scene), who is given a cap on the sly by rival McGoogin. Altho ...

Cast

  • Lew Ayres

    Lew Ayres

    Kent Murdock

  • Gail Patrick

    Gail Patrick

    Meg Archer

  • Paul Kelly

    Paul Kelly

    I.B. McGoogin

  • Benny Baker

    Benny Baker

    Phil Doane

  • Ernest Cossart

    Ernest Cossart

    Stanley Redfield

  • Onslow Stevens

    Onslow Stevens

    Nate Girard

  • Joyce Compton

    Joyce Compton

    Hester Boone

  • Anthony Nace

    Joe Cusick

  • Joe Sawyer

    Joe Sawyer

    Inspector Tom Bacon

  • Don Rowan

    Don Rowan

    Siki

  • Frank Sheridan

    Frank Sheridan

    Police Chief

  • Irving Bacon

    Irving Bacon

    Det. Keogh

Crew

Screenplay

George Harmon Coxe

Screenplay

Sidney Salkow

Story

Jack Moffitt

Director of Photography

Ted Tetzlaff

Editor

James Smith

Original Music Composer

Phil Boutelje

Original Music Composer

Friedrich Hollaender

Original Music Composer

Ernst Toch

Original Music Composer

Victor Young

Producer

A.M. Botsford

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