Murder with Pictures

5.1
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Run time: 69 min
  • Premiere: 1936. September 24.

Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for the news men where Murdock romances a mystery woman who confronted Girard in front of him, but Murdock's fiancée Hester shows up. After they return to his apartment, have a fight, and she leaves, the mystery woman slips in and begs for his help. Police Inspector Bacon and the cops show up, looking for the mystery woman; Murdock hides her. Murdock goes with the cops to discuss the murder the woman is suspected of. Bacon explains (in flashback) how some photogs were setting up a shot with Girard and Redfield. When the flashbulbs popped, Redfield keeled over dead and the woman, Meg Archer, fled while the newsmen ran out to phone their papers. The newsmen (who were rounded up later as thoroly as possible) are taken into police custody, except for Murdock (who wasn't at the scene), who is given a cap on the sly by rival McGoogin. Altho ...

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Lew Ayres

Kent Murdock

Gail Patrick

Meg Archer

Paul Kelly

I.B. McGoogin

Benny Baker

Phil Doane

Ernest Cossart

Stanley Redfield

Onslow Stevens

Nate Girard

Joyce Compton

Hester Boone

Anthony Nace

Joe Cusick

Joe Sawyer

Inspector Tom Bacon

Frank Sheridan

Police Chief

Irving Bacon

Det. Keogh

William Bailey

Party Guest (uncredited)

Paul Barrett

Reporter (uncredited)

Patsy Bellamy

Party Guest (uncredited)

Harry C. Bradley

Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)

Robert Burkhardt

Reporter (uncredited)

Edmund Burns

Reporter (uncredited)

Vance Carroll

Plainclothesman (uncredited)

Jack Chapin

Reporter (uncredited)

Davison Clark

Overholt (uncredited)

Beatrice Coleman

Party Guest (uncredited)

Mike Donovan

Jury Foreman (uncredited)

Ellen Drew

Bit Role (uncredited)

Eddie Dunn

Bailiff (uncredited)

Jerry Fletcher

Reporter (uncredited)

Kay Gordon

Party Guest (uncredited)

Carlton Griffin

Party Guest (uncredited)

Margareth Harrison

Party Guest (uncredited)

Howard Hickman

Judge (uncredited)

William Hopper

Photographer (uncredited)

Ernest W. Johnson

Corpse (uncredited)

Harry Jordan

Girard Henchman (uncredited)

Marten Lamont

Reporter (uncredited)

Frank Losee Jr.

Reporter (uncredited)

Nick Lukats

Reporter (uncredited)

Frank Marlowe

Pipe Smoker (uncredited)

Rex Moore

Newsboy (uncredited)

Jack Mulhall

Girard Henchman (uncredited)

Paddy O'Flynn

Reporter (uncredited)

George Ovey

Trunk Man (uncredited)

Bob Perry

Girard Henchman (uncredited)

Lee Phelps

Girard Henchman (uncredited)

Earl Pingree

Taxi Driver (uncredited)

Art Rowlands

Assistant Editor (uncredited)

Christian Rub

Olaf (uncredited)

Allen Saunders

Reporter (uncredited)

Kai Schmidt

Party Guest (uncredited)

Lee Shumway

Officer Kelly (uncredited)

Larry Steers

Party Guest (uncredited)

Dorothy Stevens

Party Guest (uncredited)

Milburn Stone

Operator (uncredited)

Phil Tead

Reporter (uncredited)

Harry Wallace

Girard Henchman (uncredited)

Dorothy Ward

Party Guest (uncredited)

Pat West

Reporter (uncredited)

Charles C. Wilson

Assistant Editor (uncredited)

Harry Wilson

Girard Henchman (uncredited)

J.J. Clark

Party Guest (uncredited)

Art

John B. Goodman

Art Direction

A. E. Freudeman

Set Decoration

Hans Dreier

Art Direction

Camera

Ted Tetzlaff

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Edith Head

Costume Design

Crew

Adolph Zukor

Presenter

Directing

Charles Barton

Director

Editing

James Smith

Editor

Production

A.M. Botsford

Producer

Edward F. Cline

Associate Producer

Sound

Boris Morros

Music Director

Friedrich Hollaender

Original Music Composer

Phil Boutelje

Original Music Composer

Victor Young

Original Music Composer

Walter Oberst

Sound Recordist

Don Johnson

Sound Recordist

Ernst Toch

Original Music Composer

Writing

Sidney Salkow

Screenplay

Art

John B. Goodman

Art Direction

A. E. Freudeman

Set Decoration

Hans Dreier

Art Direction

Camera

Ted Tetzlaff

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Edith Head

Costume Design

Crew

Adolph Zukor

Presenter

Directing

Charles Barton

Director

Editing

James Smith

Editor

Production

A.M. Botsford

Producer

Edward F. Cline

Associate Producer

Sound

Boris Morros

Music Director

Friedrich Hollaender

Original Music Composer

Phil Boutelje

Original Music Composer

Victor Young

Original Music Composer

Walter Oberst

Sound Recordist

Don Johnson

Sound Recordist

Ernst Toch

Original Music Composer

Writing

Sidney Salkow

Screenplay