17 July 1936 Drama, Action, Crime 55 mins
A struggling young engineer, Bob Sanderson, refuses to marry the very-rich Edith Stuart until he can support her on his own earnings. He goes to work for her father as a messenger in the telegraph business, and, via his engineering skills, discovers a plot to kidnap Edith.
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Lew Ayres as Bob Sanderson
Joan Perry as Edith Stuart
Thurston Hall as T. Gregory Stuart
Victor Kilian as Caretaker
Henry Mollison as Ralph Gurney
John Gallaudet as Hawsley
Gene Morgan as Presto Mullins
George McKay as Spud
Albert J. Smith as Cop
Wyrley Birch as Mr. Morrison
Wade Boteler as Captain of Detectives
Maurice Brierre as Waiter
Frank Bull as Police Broadcaster
Bobby Burns as Pawnbroker (uncredited)
Edmund Cobb as Cop (uncredited)
Helen Dickson as Wife in Cafe (uncredited)
Grace Neville Writer
Henry Freulich Director of Photography
David Selman Director
Irving Briskin Executive Producer
Harry L. Decker Producer
Gene Milford Editor
Ernest Dryden Costume Design
Harry Shipman Writer
Sequestro Fingido Trailer
Nattens Sjakaler Trailer
United States 17 July 1936
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06 March 1936
Raymond Bernard’s film of a script by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (The Little Prince) about a young woman who aspires to become a pilot.
04 April 1936
In London, August 1914, Austrian star Elsa Duranyi (Gertrude Michael) and English matinee idol Alan Barclay (Herbert Marshall) are in love and plan an immediate marriage.
28 March 1936
Little Elmer Elephant has a crush on Tillie Tiger and his affection is reciprocated. Trouble is, the pint-sized pachyderm is beset by bullies who ridicule his trunk and make his life miserable.
04 June 1936
Gnomes greet the coming of spring by manufacturing various bright colours.
22 February 1936
A newly hired police chief vows to clean up a notoriously corrupt police department. When he is murdered, investigators find that there is no shortage of suspects, most of them being fellow cops.
19 October 1936
Hoping to rid a small western community of its corrupt political machine, Ken Marshall (Ken Maynard) runs for sheriff against the bad guys' candidate and wins the election.
10 April 1936
A fiery Cuban woman guides an emissary from the U.S. president through the jungles of war-torn Cuba.
02 July 1936
The terrible tempered Mr. Bang is commuting to work. When the trolley takes more than 5 seconds to arrive, he follows the tracks to the Skipper's house, where he bets him $10 he won't get to work on time.
10 April 1936
A new member of the Vienna Boys Choir shoulders the blame for a theft.
14 February 1936
Although Larry "Buster" Crabbe earns top billing, the hero of Drift Fence is former Western star Tom Keene as Jim Travis, who, at a rodeo, meets city dweller Jim Traft, who has come west to erect a fence that will prevent Clay Jackson from continuing his cattle rustling business.
22 October 1936
Boston blueblood Aloysius Merriweather loves to play jokes on people and he's come up with a joy-buzzer of a doozy.
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