Woman in the Dark (1934 film)
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Woman in the Dark is a American film directed by Phil Rosen
, filmed at Biograph Studios
by Select Pictures, released by RKO Radio Pictures, and starring Fay Wray
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With a sidekick, he pursues her and in a fracas the sidekick shoots Bradley’s dog. Bradley knocks out the sidekick and Robson reports this to the local sheriff, who wants Bradley back in jail. Tipped off by the sheriff’s daughter, Bradley and Loring flee to the New York flat of an old cellmate, Tommy Logan.
Traced by the police, Bradley escapes with a bullet in his shoulder and Loring goes back to Robson, who hires a creepy lawyer to defend her. To worsen the case against Bradley and Loring, Robson decides the sidekick should die but the two burst in and expose his plot.
Phil Rosen
Phil Rosen was an American film director and cinematographer. He directed 142 films between 1915 and 1949....
, filmed at Biograph Studios
Biograph Studios
Biograph Studios was a studio facility and film laboratory complex built in 1912 by the Biograph Company, formerly American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, at 807 E. 175th Street, in the Bronx, New York....
by Select Pictures, released by RKO Radio Pictures, and starring Fay Wray
Fay Wray
Fay Wray was a Canadian-American actress most noted for playing the female lead in King Kong...
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Plot summary
Released from prison on parole, John Bradley plans to live alone quietly in a cabin in the country. In bursts a beautiful dishevelled woman in evening dress, Louise Loring, who has run away on foot from her rich protector, Tony Robson.With a sidekick, he pursues her and in a fracas the sidekick shoots Bradley’s dog. Bradley knocks out the sidekick and Robson reports this to the local sheriff, who wants Bradley back in jail. Tipped off by the sheriff’s daughter, Bradley and Loring flee to the New York flat of an old cellmate, Tommy Logan.
Traced by the police, Bradley escapes with a bullet in his shoulder and Loring goes back to Robson, who hires a creepy lawyer to defend her. To worsen the case against Bradley and Loring, Robson decides the sidekick should die but the two burst in and expose his plot.
Cast
- Fay WrayFay WrayFay Wray was a Canadian-American actress most noted for playing the female lead in King Kong...
as Louise Loring - Ralph BellamyRalph BellamyRalph Bellamy was an American actor whose career spanned sixty-two years.-Early life:He was born Ralph Rexford Bellamy in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Lilla Louise , a native of Canada, and Charles Rexford Bellamy. He ran away from home when he was fifteen and managed to get into a road show...
as John Bradley - Melvyn DouglasMelvyn DouglasMelvyn Edouard Hesselberg , better known as Melvyn Douglas, was an American actor.Coming to prominence in the 1930s as a suave leading man , Douglas later transitioned into more mature and fatherly roles as in his Academy Award-winning performances in Hud...
as Tony Robson - Roscoe AtesRoscoe AtesRoscoe Ates was an actor and musician in primarily western films and television.-Early years:Ates was born in the rural hamlet of Grange, Mississippi, northwest of Hattiesburg. Grange is no longer included on road maps...
as Tommy Logan - Ruth Gillette as Lil Logan
- Joe KingJoe KingJoe King was a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic The Beano. It first appeared in The Beano in issue 2783, dated 18 November 1995. His name was a pun on "Joking."...
as Detective - Nell O'DayNell O'DayNell O'Day was an accomplished equestrian and B-movie actress of the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Prairie Hill, Texas, O'Day was a good looking woman in her youth, and had her first screen roles in the 1920s as a teenager.Her first starring role was in 1932 when she starred in Rackety Rax opposite...
as Helen Grant - Frank Otto as Kraus
- Reed Brown Jr. as Conroy
- Granville Bates as Sheriff Grant
- Charles Williams as Clerk
- Frank ShannonFrank ShannonFrancis Connolly Shannon , better known as Frank Shannon, was an Irish-born actor and writer.A stage actor and silent film pioneer, Shannon made his screen debut in 1913's The Artist's Joke. He later appeared in dozens of films through the mid-1920s, including The Prisoner of Zenda and Monsieur...
as Prison Warden - Cliff Dunstan as Doctor