Bill Cracks Down

Mar 22, 1937

1h 1m

★ 5.3

Overview

William Reardon, a steel magnate, dies and leaves a strange will. When his spineless and dandified heir and son returns home from living in Paris, he finds "Tons' Walker, a strong and burly steel worker running the company, per his late-father's will request. He also finds that his father's will specifies the Junior will change his name to Bill Hall and work in the family steel mill for a year under the fake name. Walker's job is to make a man out of the son. The son is not overjoyed by this prospect. Neither is Walker.

Genres

Action

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Republic Pictures

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Cast

'Tons' Walker

Grant Withers

Susan Bailey

Beatrice Roberts

Bill Reardon Jr., aka Bill Hall

Ranny Weeks

Elaine Witworth

Judith Allen

Eddie 'Porky' Plunkett

William Newell

William 'Bill' Reardon Sr.

Pierre Watkin

Steve, Mill Foreman

Roger Williams

Mrs. Witworth

Georgia Caine

Hilda

Greta Meyer

Jarvis, the Butler

Edgar Norton

Smalley, the Lawyer

Harry Depp

Zimich

Eugene King

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