Murder with Pictures
Forty Witnesses Saw the Killing, But Not One Could Pick the Killer!
69 mins
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 ...
Anthony Nace
Joe Cusick
Paul Barrett
Reporter (uncredited)
Patsy Bellamy
Party Guest (uncredited)
Robert Burkhardt
Reporter (uncredited)
Vance Carroll
Plainclothesman (uncredited)
Jack Chapin
Reporter (uncredited)
Beatrice Coleman
Party Guest (uncredited)
Mike Donovan
Jury Foreman (uncredited)
Jerry Fletcher
Reporter (uncredited)
Kay Gordon
Party Guest (uncredited)
Margareth Harrison
Party Guest (uncredited)
Ernest W. Johnson
Corpse (uncredited)
Harry Jordan
Girard Henchman (uncredited)
Frank Losee Jr.
Reporter (uncredited)
Nick Lukats
Reporter (uncredited)
Rex Moore
Newsboy (uncredited)
Paddy O'Flynn
Reporter (uncredited)
Bob Perry
Girard Henchman (uncredited)
Earl Pingree
Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Allen Saunders
Reporter (uncredited)
Kai Schmidt
Party Guest (uncredited)
Dorothy Stevens
Party Guest (uncredited)
Harry Wallace
Girard Henchman (uncredited)
George Harmon Coxe
Screenplay
Charles Barton
Director
Sidney Salkow
Screenplay
Jack Moffitt
Story
Hans Dreier
Art Direction
A.M. Botsford
Producer
James Smith
Editor
A. E. Freudeman
Set Decoration
Walter Oberst
Sound Recordist
Phil Boutelje
Original Music Composer
John B. Goodman
Art Direction
Don Johnson
Sound Recordist
Boris Morros
Music Director
Ernst Toch
Original Music Composer