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A Dangerous Affair is a 1931 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Edward Sedgwick and starring Jack Holt, Ralph Graves and Sally Blane.[1]
Plot
Members of the Randolph family assemble to hear how millions of dollars will be distributed according to a will, but the attorney in charge is murdered. A police lieutenant eventually finds the murderer in a film that Harrison's Reports said included "every known device to hold the spectator in breathless suspense — trap doors, mysterious murders and disappearances, screams, and bony arms protruding from behind half-closed doors, grabbing unsuspecting victims by the throat ...".[2]
Cast
- Jack Holt as Lt. McHenry
- Ralph Graves as Wally Cook
- Sally Blane as Marjory Randolph
- Susan Fleming as Florence
- Blanche Friderici as Letty Randolph
- Edward Brophy as Nelson
- DeWitt Jennings as City Editor
- Tyler Brooke as Harvey
- William V. Mong as Lionel
- Fred Santley as Tom
- Sidney Bracey as Plunkett
- Charles Middleton as Tupper
- Esther Muir as Peggy
References
- ^ Zmuda, p. 185
- ^ "'A Dangerous Affair' with Jack Holt and Ralph Graves". Harrison's Reports. October 3, 1931. p. 159. Retrieved July 11, 2021.
Bibliography
- Michael Zmuda. The Five Sedgwicks: Pioneer Entertainers of Vaudeville, Film and Television. McFarland, 2015.
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