What Price Crime (1935)
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One of several poverty-row films which vanished from sight during the 1935-36 movie season, Beacon Productions did its best to stay afloat as long as possible with such potboilers as What Price Crime? Future cowboy hero Charles Starrett is cast as G-Man Allan Grey, hot on the trail of a gang of… More One of several poverty-row films which vanished from sight during the 1935-36 movie season, Beacon Productions did its best to stay afloat as long as possible with such potboilers as What Price Crime? Future cowboy hero Charles Starrett is cast as G-Man Allan Grey, hot on the trail of a gang of firearms smugglers. Going undercover, Grey poses as an aspiring prizefighter in order to gain the confidence of gang leader Douglas Worthington (Noel Madison). The plot becomes as thick as pea soup when our hero falls in love with Worthington's sister Sondra (played by Virginia Cherrill, previously the blind flower girl in Chaplin's City Lights). Despite its urban setting, much of What Price Crime was economically filmed out-of-doors. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Albert Herman
- Genres
- Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Classics
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- May 28, 1935 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A predictable poverty-row routine potboiler.
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Cast
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Charles Starrett
as Allen Gray
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Noel Madison
as Douglas Worthington
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Virginia Cherrill
as Sondra Worthington
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Charles Delaney
as Armstrong
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Jack Mulhall
as Hopkins
- Edwin Argus
- Jack Cowell
- Gordon Griffith
- Arthur Loft
- Lafe [Lafayette] McKee
- Henry Roquemore
- Nina Guilberg
- Monte Carter
- Al Baffert
- John Elliott
- Nina Guilbert
