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Bureau of Missing Persons (1933)

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Overview

Director:
Roy Del Ruth
Writers:
John H. Ayers (story) &
Carol Bird (story) ...
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Release Date:
16 September 1933 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Crime | Drama more
Plot:
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
entertaining AND stupid! more

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)

Bette Davis ... Norma Roberts
Lewis Stone ... Captain Webb (as Lewis S. Stone)
Pat O'Brien ... Detective Butch Saunders
Glenda Farrell ... Belle Howard Saunders
Allen Jenkins ... Det. 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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Additional Details

Runtime:
73 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #2622)
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Referenced in Bette Davis: A Basically Benevolent Volcano (1983) (TV) more

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1 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
entertaining AND stupid!, 27 May 2006
6/10
Author: planktonrules from Bradenton, Florida

This movie really can only be enjoyed if the viewers turn off their brain. That's because although the movie is unique and diverting, at times the plot and writing is abysmal. The plot has holes and improbabilities galore and the character played by Pat O'Brien must be most the stupidest and most unbelievably violent cop of the 1930s. If policemen had REALLY been this dumb, I don't know how we ever could have made it through the decade! Plus, if you combine all his civil rights violations (kicking in doors without warrants, arresting people recklessly and savagely beating his bigamist wife at the end of the film), you get a truly annoying character.

However, if you turn off your brain and watch the film JUST for its entertainment value, it's pretty good stuff. Plus, while it didn't do a lot to make Bette Davis a star, it did give her top billing AND her character was a lot better written than O'Brien's.

Entertaining AND stupid--that about says it all!

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