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10/06/1933 Crime, Drama 1h 6m
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It's a pleasure to have your home wrecked by a man like him.

Overview

A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at a low-rent detective agency. He soon gets involved with a woman with ties to a crooked gambling club owner, who is a client of his agency.

  1. Michael Curtiz

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. William Powell

    Donald Free

  2. Margaret Lindsay

    Janet Reynolds

  3. Arthur Hohl

    Dan Hogan

  4. Ruth Donnelly

    Amy Moran

  5. Gordon Westcott

    Tony Bandor

  6. Natalie Moorhead

    Helen Burns

  7. James Bell

    Whitey

  8. Hobart Cavanaugh

    Harcourt S. Burns

  9. Irving Bacon

    Cab Driver

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-12-03
They used to say that in the end, Samuel Goldwyn couldn't get arrested in Hollywood. Well the same is true here for "Donald Free" (William Powell). His government career went down in flames and now he can't get a job for love nor money. Until, that is, he alights on the dodgy "Peerless" detective agency where he is charged with a frame-up of "Janet" (Margaret Lindsay) who has fallen foul of a gambler who is the man behind the cheques at his new employer. What nobody (except the audience, that is) predicts though, is that the two will begin to fall for each other and his task becomes not only m...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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