"WHAT A MURDER!...or even two or three? Here's drama in this ROAR!!" 22 December 1939 Comedy, Mystery 85 mins
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
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Pat O’Brien as John Webb
Edward Arnold as Vincent Cushing
Broderick Crawford as Russel Sampson
Ruth Terry as Anne Seymour
Alan Dinehart as District Attorney George Joyce
Claire Dodd as Alma Brehmer
Phyllis Brooks as Sarilla Cushing
Eve Arden as Miss Ater
Douglass Dumbrille as George Taylor
Bernard Nedell as Pete Godena
Douglas Fowley as Madder
Ernest Truex as P. Hemingway Collins
Janet Beecher as Mrs. Cushing
Evelyn Keyes as Miss Vlissingen
John Sheehan as Mike Daley
Addison Richards as Inspector Melvyn Fromm
Tay Garnett Director
Ken Englund Screenplay
Merritt B. Gerstad Director of Photography
Dorothy Spencer Editor
Alexander Golitzen Art Direction
Travis Banton Costume Design
Tay Garnett Producer
Werner Janssen Original Music Composer
Jule Styne Songs
George R. Brown Lyricist
Irving Actman Lyricist
Jule Styne Lyricist
Julia Heron Interior Designer
Werner Janssen Music Director
Richard Irvine Art Direction
F.G. Presnell Novel
United States 22 December 1939
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