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4.8/10 • 5

1935-08-011h 5m

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Captain Matthews is paid 40,000 dollars in cash by Nick Conrad for his shipment of silk from China. About 15 seconds after he gets the cash, he's lured away on a false pretence and robbed by Conrad's henchmen. Newspaper reporter Jerry Mason witnesses the robbery and steals the cash from Conrad.

Directors
Albert Herman

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  1. Lawrence Gray

    Lawrence Gray

    Jerry Mason

  2. Sheila Bromley

    Sheila Bromley

    Lorraine Matthews

  3. J. Farrell MacDonald

    J. Farrell MacDonald

    Harry Cromwell

  4. Fuzzy Knight

    Fuzzy Knight

    Fred Klein

  5. Bryant Washburn

    Bryant Washburn

    Nick Conrad

  6. Fred Kelsey

    Fred Kelsey

    Detective O'Brien

  7. John Elliott

    John Elliott

    Captain Matthews

  8. Eddie Phillips

    Eddie Phillips

    Eddie

  9. Arthur Loft

    Arthur Loft

    Pete

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CinemaSerf

Mar 27, 2025

5/10

Yikes, but this is contrived. It could all have been over in five minutes! It’s all about “Capt. Matthews” (John Elliott) who turns up at a night club run by “Conrad” (Bryant Washburn) who owes him $40,000 for a cargo he has just delivered. The seedy gent has no intentions of paying him, though, and a contretemps now ensues that ends up seeing a nearby journalist “Mason” (Lawrence Gray), who watched the whole fracas, obtain the cash and use it to help sell his newspapers. Instead of just returning the cash to it’s rightful owner - the identity of whom we all know - they run a full spread headline essentially inviting interested parties to come and collect. Of course, this is all part of a cunning plan to expose the dodgy “Bryant” and that task falls to an hapless Irish policeman “O’Brien” (Fred Kelsey) who must trace and face a gang of criminals who, luckily, couldn’t hit a cow on the tit with a tin cup. Indeed, it’s really the “thwack” and “pow” style of stage thuggery that’s most memorable here as the fight scenes almost suggest the intended victim of a blow has a cross drawn on his chin, or his stomach. It’s entertaining in a join-the-dots way and the denouement is more soapy than menacing. There is nothing at all here you will remember, but it’s no worse than the standard hour long B-features that passed a Saturday afternoon in 1935.

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English
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