Money to Loan

Mar 11, 1939

0h 20m

★ 6.7

Overview

The MGM crime reporter introduces Norman Kennedy, District Attorney of a large city, he who talks about the general want for money, and the extraordinary lengths some will go to to get it. The loan sharking business has that want for money on both sides. He tells the story of one such loan shark, Stephen Hanley, who tried to pass his company off as a legitimate loan business, but who charged exorbitant rates, and used extortion and fraud to get out of his customers even more than what they may have owed on paper.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Money to Loan Trailers

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Cast

Stephen Hanley

Alan Dinehart

Hanley's Assistant

Paul Guilfoyle

Joe Mello

John Butler

District Attorney Norman Kennedy

Addison Richards

Reporter

Tom Collins

Police Sergeant

Eddy Chandler

Clarence Z. Dodds, Hanley's Accountant

John Dilson

Frank Sidley, Loan Victim

Lester Dorr

Saxophone Musician

Jack Egan

Policeman in District Attorney's Office

Chuck Hamilton

Police Captain

Edward Hearn

Radio Broadcaster

Reid Kilpatrick

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