Below the Deadline

Jun 7, 1936

1h 4m

★ 4.9

A DYNAMIC DRAMA OF THE DARK, LURKING SHADOWS JUST BEYOND THE BRILLANCE OF THE BROADWAY LIGHTS.

Overview

After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a train wreck, he gets plastic surgery and returns to expose the real killers.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Mystery

Production Companies

Chesterfield Motion Pictures Corporation

Below the Deadline Trailers

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Cast

Molly Fitzgerald

Cecilia Parker

Terry Mulvaney

Russell Hopton

Flash Ackroyd

Theodore von Eltz

Pearson

Thomas E. Jackson

Diamond Dutch

Warner Richmond

Mr. Abrams

John St. Polis

Aunt Mary Tibbett

Kathryn Sheldon

Police Captain Symonds

Robert Homans

Henchman Spike

Jack Gardner

Sparring Partner Al

Al Thompson

Artie Nolan

Charles Delaney

Plastic Surgeon

Sidney Payne

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