Nancy Steele Is Missing! | |
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Directed by | George Marshall Otto Preminger |
Written by | Charles Francis Coe Gene Fowler Hal Long |
Produced by | Nunnally Johnson Darryl F. Zanuck |
Starring | Victor McLaglen Walter Connolly Peter Lorre |
Cinematography | Barney McGill |
Edited by | Jack Murray |
Music by | David Buttolph Cyril J. Mockridge |
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Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox |
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Running time | 84 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Nancy Steele Is Missing! is a 1937 American drama film directed by George Marshall and Otto Preminger and starring Victor McLaglen, Walter Connolly and Peter Lorre.[1] It was produced and distributed by Twentieth Century Fox. The film's sets were designed by the British art director Hans Peters. It has been described as a precursor to film noir.[2]
Plot
Cast
- Victor McLaglen as Dannie O'Neill
- Walter Connolly as Michael Steele
- Peter Lorre as Prof. Sturm
- June Lang as Sheila O'Neill - aka Nancy Steele
- Robert Kent as Jimmie Wilson
- Shirley Deane as Nancy
- John Carradine as Harry Wilkins
- Jane Darwell as Mrs. Mary Flaherty
- Frank Conroy as Dan Mallon
- Granville Bates as Joseph F.X. Flaherty
- George Taylor as Gus Crowder
- Kane Richmond as Tom - Steele's Chauffeur
- Margaret Fielding as Miss Hunt
- DeWitt Jennings as Doctor on Farm
- George Chandler as Counter Clerk
- George Humbert as Giuseppe Spano
- Edgar Dearing as Detective Flynn
References
Bibliography
- Grant, Kevin. Roots of Film Noir: Precursors from the Silent Era to the 1940s. McFarland, 2022.
- Thomas, Sarah. Peter Lorre: Face Maker: Constructing Stardom and Performance in Hollywood and Europe. Berghahn Books, 2012.
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