Murder with Pictures
Murder with Pictures
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 ...
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Cast
Frank Marlowe
as Pipe Smoker (uncredited)
Gail Patrick
as Meg Archer
Frank Sheridan
as Police Chief
Howard Hickman
as Judge (uncredited)
Marten Lamont
as Reporter (uncredited)
J.J. Clark
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Phil Tead
as Reporter (uncredited)
Ernest Cossart
as Stanley Redfield
Lee Phelps
as Girard Henchman (uncredited)
Lee Shumway
as Officer Kelly (uncredited)
Purnell Pratt
as Editor
Onslow Stevens
as Nate Girard
Joe Sawyer
as Inspector Tom Bacon
Don Rowan
as Siki
Christian Rub
as Olaf (uncredited)
Harry Wilson
as Girard Henchman (uncredited)
Eddie Dunn
as Bailiff (uncredited)
Milburn Stone
as Operator (uncredited)
Paul Kelly
as I.B. McGoogin
William Bailey
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Dorothy Ward
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Harry C. Bradley
as Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
Carlton Griffin
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Lew Ayres
as Kent Murdock
Benny Baker
as Phil Doane
Nick Lukats
as Reporter (uncredited)
Art Rowlands
as Assistant Editor (uncredited)
Edmund Burns
as Reporter (uncredited)
Davison Clark
as Overholt (uncredited)
Larry Steers
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Charles C. Wilson
as Assistant Editor (uncredited)
Irving Bacon
as Det. Keogh
Jack Mulhall
as Girard Henchman (uncredited)
Pat West
as Reporter (uncredited)
William Hopper
as Photographer (uncredited)
Ellen Drew
as Bit Role (uncredited)
George Ovey
as Trunk Man (uncredited)
Joyce Compton
as Hester Boone
