Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937)

After being in jail for seventeen years a crook is met by the girl he kidnapped as a baby. She now thinks he's her father. When he returns her to her real father there's a job and a reward,... See full summary »

Director:

George Marshall

Writers:

Charles Francis Coe (story), Gene Fowler,

Stars:

Victor McLaglen, Walter Connolly, Peter Lorre

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Victor McLaglen	...	Dannie O'Neill
Walter Connolly	...	Michael Steele
Peter Lorre	...	Professor Sturm
June Lang	...	Nancy Steele, aka Sheila O'Neill
Robert Kent	...	Jimmie Wilson
Shirley Deane	...	The false Nancy Steele
John Carradine	...	Harry Wilkins
Jane Darwell	...	Mrs. Mary Flaherty
Frank Conroy	...	Dan Mallon
Granville Bates	...	Joseph F.X. Flaherty
George Taylor	...	Gus Crowder
Kane Richmond	...	Tom, Steele's Chauffeur
Margaret Fielding	...	Miss Hunt
DeWitt Jennings	...	Doctor on Farm
George Chandler	...	Counter Clerk

Storyline

After being in jail for seventeen years a crook is met by the girl he kidnapped as a baby. She now thinks he's her father. When he returns her to her real father there's a job and a reward, but an old prisonmate gets in the way.

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Plot Keywords:

misconception | character name in title

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

12 March 1937 (USA)

Also Known As:

Meuterei in Sing-Sing

Filming Locations:

20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Technical Specs

Runtime:

84 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Wallace Beery was originally assigned the lead role, and Otto Preminger was assigned to direct. However, Beery told Fox studio head Darryl F. Zanuck, "I won't do a picture with a director whose name I can't pronounce." Zanuck re-assigned Preminger to direct the comedy Danger: Love at Work, and replaced Beery with Victor McLaglen for this film.

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Quotes

[Sturm retells the story of the murder he committed]
Professor Sturm: ...as I said, he was so big, it seems unfair I should have gotten so little money out of him.
Dannie O'Neill: Don't you ever get tired of talking about the guy you croaked?
Professor Sturm: No.
Dannie O'Neill: Don't it ever bother you?
Professor Sturm: No. All that bothers me was a certain carelessness I had shown. I went to his funeral. It wasn't sentiment, you understand, it was curiosity. I was curious to see what they could do about that hole in his head.

User Reviews

"Nancy" is nice!

Designed to showcase McLaghlen in another dumb-brute-Irishman role similar to the one he played in "The Informer," this little crime story is as clever and snappy as "The Informer" is pretentious, and McLaghlen's very good in it. Even better is Peter Lorre as a devilish little jailbird who tries to get the better of the big guy.