Murder with Pictures
{{short description|1936 film by Charles Barton}}
{{use mdy dates|date=December 2024}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Murder with Pictures
| image = Murder with Pictures FilmPoster.jpeg
| caption =
| director = Charles Barton
| producer = Edward F. Cline (associate producer)
A.M. Botsford (producer){{Citation needed|date=October 2010}} (uncredited)
| writer = George Harmon Coxe (writer)
Jack Moffitt (writer)
Sidney Salkow (writer)
| narrator =
| starring = See below
| music =
| cinematography = Ted Tetzlaff
| editing = James E. Smith
| distributor = Paramount Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1936|09|25}}
| runtime = 69 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
}}
Murder with Pictures is a 1936 American crime-mystery film based on a story by George Harmon Coxe. The film was directed by Charles Barton, the screenplay was written by Jack Moffitt and Sidney Salkow. Lew Ayres starred as Kent Murdock, Gail Patrick starred as Meg Archer; Paul Kelly and Benny Baker also appeared in the film. The film was released September 25, 1936.{{cite news |author= |date=21 November 1936 |title=At the Rialto |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1936/11/21/archives/at-the-rialto.html |work=The New York Times |location=New York City, New York, USA |access-date=21 February 2022}}{{cite book |last=Coffin |first=Lesley L. |author-link= |date=2012 |title=Lew Ayres, Hollywood's Conscientious Objector |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rukaBwAAQBAJ&dq=%22murder+with+pictures%22+1936&pg=PA218 |location=Jackson, Mississippi, USA |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |page=218 |isbn=9781617036385}}
Plot
After gangster Nate Girard (Onslow Stevens) is acquitted of the murder of Arch Cusick, his lawyer Stanley Redfield (Ernest Cossart) invites the press to a party at his apartment during which he is killed. At the party newspaper photographer Kent Murdock (Lew Ayres) meets Meg Archer (Gail Patrick) who later escapes to Ayres' apartment in the same building after Redfield is killed. The police suspect Archer is responsible for the murder, but are unable to find her, even though she is hiding in Murdock's shower. Later during the police investigation at Redfield's apartment Murdock finds fellow newspaperman's cap which has a photographic plate hidden inside which can identify the murderer.{{cite book |last=Langman |first=Larry |author-link= |date=2009 |title=The Media in the Movies, A Catalog of American Journalism Films, 1900-1996 · Volume 9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I38wCgAAQBAJ&dq=charles+barton+murder+with+pictures&pg=PA183 |location=Jefferson, North Carolina, USA |publisher=McFarland Incorporated Publishers |page=183 |isbn=9780786440917}}
Cast
- Lew Ayres as Kent Murdock
- Gail Patrick as Meg Archer
- Paul Kelly as I.B. McGoogin
- Benny Baker as Phil Doane
- Ernest Cossart as Stanley Redfield
- Onslow Stevens as Nate Girard
- Joyce Compton as Hester Boone
- Anthony Nace as Joe Cusick
- Joe Sawyer as Inspector Tom Bacon
- Don Rowan as Siki
- Frank Sheridan as Police Chief
- Irving Bacon as Det. Keogh
- Purnell Pratt as Editor
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0028004|title=Murder with Pictures}}
- {{TCMDb title|84991|Murder With Pictures}}
- {{AFI film|4531}}
- {{rotten-tomatoes|murder_with_pictures_1936/reviews}}
- {{Internet Archive film|id=Murder_with_Pictures_1936|name=Murder with Pictures}}
{{Charles Barton}}
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Category:1930s English-language films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:American mystery films
Category:Paramount Pictures films
Category:Films directed by Charles Barton
Category:English-language crime films
Category:English-language mystery films
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