Danger on the Air (1938)

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Cast

Complete credited cast:
	Nan Grey	...	Christina 'Steenie' MacCorkle
	Donald Woods	...	Benjamin Franklin Butts
	Jed Prouty	...	Harry Jones, Radio Company Boss
	Berton Churchill	...	Caesar Kluck
	William Lundigan	...	Dave Chapman, Radio Announcer
	Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher	...	Finney Fish, Ad Company Man (as Skeets Gallagher)
	Edward Van Sloan	...	Dr. Leonard Sylvester, Charlatan
	George Meeker	...	Tuttle, Undercover FCC Man
	Frank Milan	...	Alexander MacCorkle
	Lee J. Cobb	...	Tony Lisotti
	Johnny Arthur	...	Aiken (as John Arthur)
	Peter Lind Hayes	...	Harry Lake, Call Boy and Aspiring Performer (as Lind Hayes)
	Louise Stanley	...	Maria Lisotti
	Eloise Rawitzer	...	Miss Bello
	Joe Downing	...	Gangster Joe Carney (as Joseph Downing)

Storyline

Caesar Kluck, soft-drink magnate, is found dead in the office of a big radio-broadcasting company. Benjamin Franklin Butts, a sound engineer, discovers that Kluck met his death from cyanogen gas, administered in some mysterious fashion. Harry Jones, head of the company, fires Butts for making the public. Kluck has made many enemies and there are numerous suspects, including Christina "Steenie" MacCorkle, who is in love with Butts; her brother Alexander; radio announcer Dave Chapman; Tony Lisotti, the janitor who had discovered that Kluck was making love to his daughter Maria' Kluck's physician, Doctor Leonard sylvester, and Joe Carney, a racketeer who had been doing Kluck's dirty work. Butts pursues his investigation and his only clue is a deflated toy-advertising balloon he has found next to Kluck's body. Later, Butts discovers Tony;s body in a broom closet and... Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>  

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