Murder with Pictures
Forty Witnesses Saw the Killing, But Not One Could Pick the Killer!
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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 ...
Production
Paramount Pictures
Language
EN
Status
Released
Release Date
Cast
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
Anthony Nace
Joe Cusick
Joe Sawyer
Inspector Tom Bacon
Don Rowan
Siki
Frank Sheridan
Police Chief
Irving Bacon
Det. Keogh
Purnell Pratt
Editor
William Bailey
Party Guest (uncredited)
Paul Barrett
Reporter (uncredited)
Patsy Bellamy
Party Guest (uncredited)
Harry C. Bradley
Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
Robert Burkhardt
Reporter (uncredited)
Edmund Burns
Reporter (uncredited)
Vance Carroll
Plainclothesman (uncredited)
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