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