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| Director: | John H. Auer | 
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| Writer: | Gordon Kahn, Maxwell Shane, James Webb | 
| Staring: | 
| A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral candidate after a gangster threatens his family. Features tidal wave stock footage from RKO's "Deluge" (1933), q.v. | |
| Release Date: | Jun 02, 1939 | 
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| Director: | John H. Auer | 
| Writer: | Gordon Kahn, Maxwell Shane, James Webb | 
| Genres: | Crime | 
| Keywords | husband wife relationship, gangster, hit-and-run, ventriloquist, murder, tv reporter, stock footage, fiancé fiancée relationship, faked footage, political corruption, ventriloquist's dummy, family life, father son relationship, mayoral election, comical sidekick, bombed building, gang bomber | 
| Production Companies | Republic Pictures | 
| Box Office | Revenue: $0 Budget: $0 | 
| Updates | Updated: Aug 04, 2024 Entered: Apr 20, 2024 | 
| Name | Character | 
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| Ralph Byrd | Jeff Shannon | 
| Kay Sutton | Laurel Shannon | 
| Frank Jenks | Peaches Jackson | 
| Marc Lawrence | Melvin Sutter | 
| George Barbier | Uncle Dan Carter | 
| Mickey Kuhn | Buddy Shannon | 
| Oscar O'Shea | Mike Halloran | 
| Dorothy Lee | Mable | 
| Ferris Taylor | Clifford Farrow | 
| Smiley Burnette | Voice of Felix the Dummy | 
| Raymond Bailey | Roy Nixon | 
| Don 'Red' Barry | Curly Parsons | 
| Hooper Atchley | |
| Roy Barcroft | |
| Lynton Brent | New York Teletype Operator | 
| Richard Cramer | Short-Order Cook | 
| Roy Darmour | |
| John Dilson | Appleby | 
| Harrison Greene | |
| Lloyd Ingraham | Doctor | 
| I. Stanford Jolley | |
| Rex Lease | Ambulance Attendant | 
| George Montgomery | |
| Landers Stevens | |
| Ben Taggart | |
| Forrest Taylor | |
| George Turner | |
| Minerva Urecal | |
| Elizabeth Valentine | |
| Crane Whitley | |
| Robert J. Wilke | Man in TV Studio | 
| Dave Willock | Page | 
| Thomas Carr | Chester, in New York | 
| Mickey Daniels | Telegram Messenger | 
| Name | Job | 
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| John H. Auer | Director | 
| Gordon Kahn | Writer | 
| Maxwell Shane | Writer | 
| James Webb | Story | 
| Stanley Rauh | Additional Writing | 
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