To gain fame, a reporter arranges to be suspected of murder.To gain fame, a reporter arranges to be suspected of murder.To gain fame, a reporter arranges to be suspected of murder.
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Roscoe Ates
- Edmund Joyce
- (as Rosco Ates)
Gustav von Seyffertitz
- Charles Spengler
- (as Gustav Von Seyffertitz)
Shirley Chambers
- Blonde in Bath
- (uncredited)
James Conaty
- Asst. Defense Attorney
- (uncredited)
Samuel Fuller
- Minor Role
- (rumored)
- (uncredited)
- …
William Halligan
- Tracy
- (uncredited)
Julie Haydon
- Maid
- (uncredited)
Ethan Laidlaw
- Turnkey
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis film was mildly successful at the box office, earning RKO a profit of $21,000 ($474,000 in 2022) according to studio records.
- GoofsWhen the Bruce Cabot character is reading the newspaper, both the headlines and the beginning text of the article are clearly visible. However, the text does not match the headlines, and is actually a hodgepodge of nonsensical wording.
- Quotes
Chick Brian: Aww Mr. Dale, don't get sore.
Jeff Dale: I was born that way.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Complete Citizen Kane (1991)
- SoundtracksTHREE LITTLE WORDS
(1930) (uncredited)
Written by Harry Ruby
Lyrics by Bert Kalmar
Hummed by uncredited bathing blonde
Featured review
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt for the brain dead
Oh, where to even start with this sad B movie.
An ambitious young reporter who wants to get married and provide for his wife gets caught in a downpour with his fiancée. They duck into an inn. Hearing noise, they find someone in the next room dead, as well as the guy who let them in. The killer was a guy looking for money, and he had a woman with him -- they find the money, but she leaves her purse behind with her name and address inside.
The reporter sets himself up as the murderer, but gives his fiancée the purse to keep to prove his innocence. He calls in the murder anonymously and then sends reports in of how it feels to be hiding and on the run from the cops.
Eric Linden plays the idiot reporter who apparently never heard of hard work rather than schemes, and Dorothy Jordan, who is in for a life of misery if she marries this guy, is his fiancée.
This was Bruce Cabot's first credited film, and soon after, he saved Fay Wray from King Kong.
The film will remind some of the Fritz Lang film, "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt," which I happen to love. It will remind you of it, and then, hopefully, you will forget the comparison since there really isn't one.
An ambitious young reporter who wants to get married and provide for his wife gets caught in a downpour with his fiancée. They duck into an inn. Hearing noise, they find someone in the next room dead, as well as the guy who let them in. The killer was a guy looking for money, and he had a woman with him -- they find the money, but she leaves her purse behind with her name and address inside.
The reporter sets himself up as the murderer, but gives his fiancée the purse to keep to prove his innocence. He calls in the murder anonymously and then sends reports in of how it feels to be hiding and on the run from the cops.
Eric Linden plays the idiot reporter who apparently never heard of hard work rather than schemes, and Dorothy Jordan, who is in for a life of misery if she marries this guy, is his fiancée.
This was Bruce Cabot's first credited film, and soon after, he saved Fay Wray from King Kong.
The film will remind some of the Fritz Lang film, "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt," which I happen to love. It will remind you of it, and then, hopefully, you will forget the comparison since there really isn't one.
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- blanche-2
- Sep 25, 2015
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- Also known as
- Убийство в придорожной закусочной
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- Budget
- $117,713 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 13 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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