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Bela Lugosi plays a criminal nightclub owner in his final feature under his Universal Studios contract. A far cry from Dracula, his first star vehicle for the studio, Universal appear to have put him into the film to fulfill their contractual obligations before severing ties with the actor. Apart from roles in the serials Shadow of Chinatown and SOS Coastguard, Lugosi was unable to find anymore film work until 1939’s Son of Frankenstein due to a moral backlash against the supposed bad influence of horror films in the United Kingdom, which resulted in an almost overnight halt to production of such films in Hollywood.
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Production Company: Universal Studios
Associated Producer: Robert Presnell
Director: Otto Brower
Screenplay: Horace McCoy
Original Story: Robert Presnell and Horace McCoy
Cinematography: George Robinson
Art Director: Jack Otterson and Loren Patrick
Special Effects: John P. Fulton
Musical Director: Charles Previn
Orchestration: Clifford Vaughan
Editor: Paul Cahn
Sound Supervisor: Homer G. Tasker
Gowns: Vera West
Running time: 58 minutes
Copyright Number: LP6527, August 14th, 1936
Cast:
Ricardo Cortez: Bill Davis
Patricia Ellis: Connie Larrimore
Michael Loring: Clarlie Davies
Bela Lugosi: Gregory Benez
Wallis Clark: Inspector Gil Pottle
David Oliver: Butch
Arthur Loft: Inspector Gene Richards
Guy Usher: Evans
William Hall: Roach
Spencer Charters: Grumpy
Hattie McDaniel: Deborah
Marla Shelton: Stewardess
Robert Davis: Pilot
Henry Hunter: Co-pilot
Billy Burrud: Boy
Harry Beresford: Ritter
Paul Harvey: Lieutenant Ordway
Anne Gillis: Little girl
Russell Wade: Man
Anne O’Neil: Woman with nose machine
Gertrude Astor: Woman with drum sticks
Flora Finch: Mrs Armbrister
Margaret McWade: Mrs. Compton
Jerry Mandy: Henchman
Jack Byron: Henchman-Driver
Alfonso Corelli: Man calming crowd in night club
Frank Wilcox: Postmaster General
Harry Antrim: Postmaster
James Blaine: Police broadcaster
Don Brodie: Reporter
Mary Carr: Mrs. John Mead
Burr Caruth: Postmaster Long
Walter Clyde: Reporter
Nick Copeland: Head waiter
Lester Dorr: Truck driver
Flora Finch: The ugly fraud
Diana Gibson: Unspecified role
Ann Gillis: Little Alice
Anita Gordon: Crying child
Malcolm Graham: Mumbling man
Francis Gregg: Head Nurse
Ben Hall: Mail clerk
Sibyl Harris: Mother on plane
Selmer Jackson: Chief Postal Inspector
John ‘Dusty’ King: Ralph
Stanley Mack: Reporter
Johnnie Morris: Short man
Lee Phelps: Police officer
Dan Roberts: Counter man
Arthur Singley: Ground operator
Landers Stevens: Dr. Doyle
Albert Taylor: Mail clerk
Jimmy Vandiveer: Radio announcer
Russell Wade: Man
Larry Wheat: Nervous passenger
Buddy Williams: Busboy
Dorothea Wolbert: Mrs. Coates
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Prescott Evening Courier, August 27, 1936
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Modern Screen, November, 1936
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Sydney Morning Herald, November 2, 1936
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Spokane Daily Chronicle, November 24, 1936
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Spokane Daily Chronicle, November 25, 1936
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The Sunday Spartanburg Herald-Journal, December 13, 1936
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