fiction.wikisort.org - Movie

Search / Calendar

Danger on the Air is a 1938 American mystery film directed by Otis Garrett. The film was based on the novel Death Catches Up with Mr. Kluck by author Xanthippe.

Danger on the Air
Directed byOtis Garrett
Screenplay by
Based onDeath Catches Up with Mr. Kluck
by Xantippe
Produced byIrving Starr
Starring
CinematographyStanley Cortez[1]
Edited byMaurice Wright[1]
Production
companies
Crime Club Productions, Inc.[1]
Distributed byUniversal Pictures Co.
Release date
  • July 1, 1938 (1938-07-01)
CountryUnited States[1]

Plot summary


Nan Grey, as Christina "Steenie" MacCorkle, a radio advertising executive, is suspected of murdering her client as Caesar Kluck, a soda magnate.

Loathed by all who met him, or forced to work, with his underhanded business machinations, the victims, and suspects, start piling up. Including thug, Joe Downing, as Gangster Joe Carney; Lee J. Cobb as Tony Lisotti, trying to protect his daughter, Louise Stanley, as Maria Lisotti, from being another notch on Kluck's belt; and, Peter Lind Hayes, as Harry Lake, who is desperate to get on the air, seemingly at any cost.


Cast



Production


Danger on the Air was based on The Crime Club novel Death Catches Up with Mr. Kluck by Xantippe.[2] Production on the film began in mid May 1938.[1]


Release


Danger on the Air was released on July 1, 1938 by Universal Studios.[1][2]


Reception


From retrospective reviews, the authors of Universal Horrors declared the film to be "One of the better Crime Club entries" noting that "Nan Grey contributes a particularly ingratiating performance."[2]


References



Footnotes


  1. "Danger on the Air". American Film Institute. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  2. Weaver, Brunas & Brunas 2007, p. 567.

Sources







Текст в блоке "Читать" взят с сайта "Википедия" и доступен по лицензии Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike; в отдельных случаях могут действовать дополнительные условия.

Другой контент может иметь иную лицензию. Перед использованием материалов сайта WikiSort.org внимательно изучите правила лицензирования конкретных элементов наполнения сайта.

2019-2025
WikiSort.org - проект по пересортировке и дополнению контента Википедии