Murder with Pictures
1936/09/24 • Released • English
Forty Witnesses Saw the Killing, But Not One Could Pick the Killer!
Overview
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 ...
Director : Charles Barton
Casts
Lew Ayres
Kent Murdock
Gail Patrick
Meg Archer
Paul Kelly
I.B. McGoogin
Benny Baker
Phil Doane
Ernest Cossart
Stanley Redfield
Onslow Stevens
Nate Girard
Joyce Compton
Hester Boone
Joe Sawyer
Inspector Tom Bacon
Don Rowan
Siki
Frank Sheridan
Police Chief
Irving Bacon
Det. Keogh
Purnell Pratt
Editor
William Bailey
Party Guest (uncredited)
Harry C. Bradley
Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
Edmund Burns
Reporter (uncredited)
Davison Clark
Overholt (uncredited)
Ellen Drew
Bit Role (uncredited)
Eddie Dunn
Bailiff (uncredited)
Carlton Griffin
Party Guest (uncredited)
Howard Hickman
Judge (uncredited)
William Hopper
Photographer (uncredited)
Marten Lamont
Reporter (uncredited)
Frank Marlowe
Pipe Smoker (uncredited)
Jack Mulhall
Girard Henchman (uncredited)
George Ovey
Trunk Man (uncredited)
Lee Phelps
Girard Henchman (uncredited)
Art Rowlands
Assistant Editor (uncredited)
Christian Rub
Olaf (uncredited)
Lee Shumway
Officer Kelly (uncredited)
Larry Steers
Party Guest (uncredited)
Milburn Stone
Operator (uncredited)
Phil Tead
Reporter (uncredited)
Dorothy Ward
Party Guest (uncredited)
Pat West
Reporter (uncredited)
Charles C. Wilson
Assistant Editor (uncredited)
Harry Wilson
Girard Henchman (uncredited)
J.J. Clark
Party Guest (uncredited)
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