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16 September 1933 (USA)
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Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Bette Davis | ... | Norma Roberts |
 | Lewis Stone | ... | Police Captain Webb (as Lewis S. Stone) |
| Pat O'Brien | ... | Detective Butch Saunders |
| Glenda Farrell | ... | Belle Howard Saunders |
| Allen Jenkins | ... | Detective Joe Musik |
| Ruth Donnelly | ... | Gwendolyn 'Pete' Harris |
 | Hugh Herbert | ... | Detective Hank Slade |
| Alan Dinehart | ... | Therme Roberts |
| Marjorie Gateson | ... | Mrs. Paul |
| Tad Alexander | ... | Caesar Paul |
| Noel Francis | ... | Alice Crane |
| Wallis Clark | ... | Mr. Paul |
| Adrian Morris | ... | Detective Irish Conlin |
| Clay Clement | ... | Burton C. Kingman |
| Henry Kolker | ... | Mr. Theodore Arno |
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USA:Approved (PCA #2622)
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Referenced in Bette Davis: A Basically Benevolent Volcano (1983) (TV)
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This is one of the fastest-moving classic films I've ever seen....and very interesting. The story tells of the many people who report missing persons In New York City, and some of the wild stories behind these disappearances. Some are humorous, but most are sad. The main one here centers around Bette Davis, who is wanted in Chicago for allegedly murdering her husband. She meets up with Pat O'Brien, a tough-talking, hard-nosed cop who has just been reluctantly signed up to the bureau.
The dialog is dated but that's what makes some of these early 1930s films interesting. Today, O'Brien would have been slapped with numerous harassment charges the way he talked to women in here and then beat one up late in the movie.
Lewis Stone is excellent as the compassionate head of the bureau. All the characters are interesting and there are some neat plot twists near the end concerning Davis, O'Brien and another man whom Davis says is framing her. I never thought Davis was that attractive but, as young actress here, she looked hot, perhaps the best she ever looked.