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Paramount Pictures
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"Get ready to die, you rat! You sent me to the gallows for a measly two hundred bucks!"
A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing. The film focuses on the relationship between the two men, and also between various characters in the theater audience, staff and cast.
Richard Barthelmess
Tony Mako
Ray Milland
Carl Barrett
Joe Morrison
Eddie
Gertrude Michael
Mrs. Sylvia Temple
Helen Mack
Helen
Dorothy Tree
Mae Danish
Roscoe Karns
Johnson
Charles Cahill Wilson
Taft
Henry Travers
Mac Mason
Noel Madison
Anderson
Paul Harvey
Capt. Seaver
Olive Tell
Mrs. Madison
Lee Kohlmar
Pa Herman
Bodil Rosing
Ma
Theodor Sparkuhl
Director of Photography
Mitchell Leisen
Director
Arthur Hornblow Jr.
Producer
Heinz Roemheld
Original Music Composer
Norman Krasna
Screenplay
Birth of a MURDERER
Deadlock
Nine Queens
Once the Killing Starts
The Letter
American Satan
Sad Love
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Reminiscence
Monsieur Hawarden
Death Warrant
Pistol Whipped
Home Alone da Riber
Urban Justice
Black Eagle
Poison Ivy 2: Lily
Sinister Assistant
The Lifeboat
Elders Club
Girl Forgotten: What Happened To Brianna Wells? Part 1-3
The Asphalt Jungle
Kiss of Death
The Web
Plunder Road
Dead End
While the City Sleeps
Each Dawn I Die
23 Paces to Baker Street
The Unholy Three
Born to Kill
I Walk Alone
They Made Me a Fugitive
Cigarettes & Coffee
The Blue Gardenia
Time Without Pity
Madame X
Witness to Murder
Knock on Any Door
5 Against the House
Perfect Sisters
Apr 11, 1935
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