High Voltage

Jun 29, 1929

1h 3m

★ 4.6

Troubled hearts - hunger - and a girl's fingers on the organ.

Overview

A busload of passengers gets stranded in a snowstorm and take refuge in an abandoned church, where they run into a mysterious man who may be on the run from the law.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Pathé Exchange

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Cast

Bill

William Boyd

Billie ("Phyllis")

Carole Lombard

Detective Dan Egan

Owen Moore

Gus Jones

Billy Bevan

The Kid

Diane Ellis

James Milton Hendrickson(The Banker)

Phillips Smalley

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