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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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1936:
28 February 1936
Someone is murdering the cast and crew of a new Hollywood movie, and the leading lady may be next. As a police detective locks down the lot and refuses to let anyone leave, the studio’s publicity head and his secretary attempt to solve the murders themselves.
30 November 1936
Paddy O'Riley and Ossie Merrill, Bellport high school football heroes, enroll in distant colleges; Paddy at a small school in the East, where he is barely a substitute, and Ossie at a powerhouse-football school, where he is an instant star and all-American candidate.
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.
10 July 1936
A crude countryman sells horses and ,thanks to an old war buddy who has now become a film star, has achieved some renown.
15 June 1936
An inventor looking for backing for his television invention gets involved with a crooked businessman and gangsters who try to steal his invention.
14 November 1936
Frankie Reynolds (Frankie Darro' ), youngest member of a family of jockeys, borrows $4.85 (yes, four dollars and eighty-five cents) from his sister Phyllis (Gladys Blake), who is not a jockey, to buy a crippled colt from the stables owned by Clay Harrison (Kane Richmond).
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.
10 April 1936
A fiery Cuban woman guides an emissary from the U.S. president through the jungles of war-torn Cuba.
01 December 1936
A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.
06 October 1936
Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman.
12 November 1936
The body of an unknown beautiful woman is fished out of the river and leaves the policemen wondering what drove the girl to such a grisly fate.
07 February 1936
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit enters a dogsled race with a $10,000 first prize.
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