Show Them No Mercy (1935)

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Taking refuge from a rainstorm in a deserted farmhouse, young married couple Joe and Loretta Martin (Edward Norris and Rochelle Hudson) soon discover to their horror that the house is being used as a hideout for a gang of kidnappers. Gang leader Tobey (Cesar Romero), a comparatively reasonable sort,… More Taking refuge from a rainstorm in a deserted farmhouse, young married couple Joe and Loretta Martin (Edward Norris and Rochelle Hudson) soon discover to their horror that the house is being used as a hideout for a gang of kidnappers. Gang leader Tobey (Cesar Romero), a comparatively reasonable sort, elects not to kill the couple because they have an ailing baby with them. But Tobey's psychotic henchman Pitch (Bruce Cabot) is not quite so sentimental, and awaits the opportunity to knock off all three "intruders." When the G-Men, tipped off by the serial numbers on some ransom money, manage to track down the crooks, Tobey is killed, leaving Loretta and her baby at the mercy of Pitch -- at least until she picks up a machine gun and mows him down! As brutal as it was possible to get under the newly strengthened Production Code, Show Them No Mercy (inspired by the real-life Weyerhauser kidnapping case) is an excellent entry in the "FBI cycle" of the mid-1930s. The film was remade in a western setting as Rawhide (1951). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 1 hr. 16 min.
Directed By: George Marshall
Genres: Drama, Action & Adventure

On DVD: Apr 4, 1991

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Cast

            Rochelle Hudson as Loretta Martin

            Cesar Romero as Tobey

            Bruce Cabot as Pitch

            Edward Norris as Joe Martin

            Edward S. Brophy as Buzz

            Warren Hymer as Gimp

            Herbert Rawlinson as Kurt Hansen

            Robert Gleckler as Gus Hansen

            Charles C. Wilson as Clifford

            Frank Conroy as Reed

            Edythe Elliott as Mrs. Hansen

            William Benedict as Willie

            Orrin Burke as Judge Fry

            Boothe Howard as Lester Mills

            Paul McVey as Dr. Peterson

            Stanley Blystone as Announcer

            William B. Davidson as Chief Haggerty

            Lester Dorr as Milkman

            Grace Goodall as Woman

            Otto Hoffman as Hick

            Edward Keane as Doctor

            Wilfred Lucas as Druggist

            Philip Morris as G-man

            Lee Shumway as G-Man

            Lawrence Wheat
            
            Georgia Cooper
            
            Stanley King
            
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