The Phantom Broadcast (1933)
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This brisk Monogram melodrama includes all the requisite entertainment elements: Talented cast, solid story, a plenitude of suspense, and a few bonus song numbers. Arnold Gray plays Grant Murdock, a popular radio crooner who, truth be told, can't sing a note. For appearance's sake, the… More This brisk Monogram melodrama includes all the requisite entertainment elements: Talented cast, solid story, a plenitude of suspense, and a few bonus song numbers. Arnold Gray plays Grant Murdock, a popular radio crooner who, truth be told, can't sing a note. For appearance's sake, the handsome Murdock is propped up before the microphone while his voice is supplied by homely hunchback Norman Wilder (Ralph Forbes). When Murdock is murdered, suspicion immediately falls upon Wilder -- who in fact had intended to bump off the phony, except that someone beat him to it. Knowing that no one will believe his story, Wilder scurries off into the night, with police hot on his heels. The actual culprit very nearly gets off scot-free but is ultimately undone by a sudden attack of conscience -- too late, alas, to save Murdock from his inexorable fate. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Phil Rosen
- Genres
- Horror, Mystery & Suspense, Classics
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Mar 15, 1933 Wide
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Cast
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Ralph Forbes
as Norman Wilder
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Vivienne Osborne
as Elsa Evans
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Paul Page
as Dr. Robert Brooks
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Gail Patrick
as Laura Hamilton
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Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
as Sandy Higgins
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Rockliffe Fellowes
as Joe Maestro
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Carl Miller
as Lefty
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Arnold Gray
as Grant Murdock
- Pauline Garon
- George 'Gabby' Hayes
- Althea Henley
- Mary MacLaren
- George Nash
- Harland Tucker
