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Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937)
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12 March 1937 (USA)
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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...
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A Gothic Crime Story
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(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 |
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84 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Finland:(Banned) (1937)
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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 (1937), and replaced Beery with Victor McLaglen for this film.
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[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.
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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.
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Despite its fairly routine, convoluted and at times difficult to follow plot, Nancy Steele Is Missing! is a grand example of studio moviemaking at its best. The script is no great shakes, but the cast,--Victor McLaglen, Peter Lorre, Walter Connolly--is, and the art direction and shadowy photography are first rate, at times more suggestive pictorially of gothic horror than a realistic crime story. That the movie recounts the story of the kidnapping of a child also gives it, for me anyway, a horrifying aspect, albeit a real life rather than supernatural one.