Sunset Murder Case (1938)

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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Sally Rand	...	Kathy O'Connor
	Esther Muir	...	Lora Wynne
	Vince Barnett	...	Barney
	Paul Sutton	...	Bapti Stephani
	Lona Andre	...	Nita Madera
	Mary Brodel	...	Jane Baird
	George Douglas	...	Carlo Rossmore
	Reed Hadley	...	Oliver Helton
	Kathryn Kane	...	Penny Nichols
	Dennis Moore	...	Lou Fleming
	Frank O'Connor	...	Detective Sgt. Tom O'Connor
	Stanley Price	...	Eric Martin
	Henry King	...	Band Leader
	Bruce Mitchell	...	Everett
	Lester Dorr	...	Editor

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First of all this film was produced and distributed in 1938, and is not a 1941 production. The exhibitors and various censor boards objected to the original title, "The Sunset Strip Case" (because of the double meaning that implied a strip on Sunset rather than the name of the street, which is exactly what the producer had in mind when he hired fan-dancer Sally Rand, the hit of the Chicago Exposition and the later Texas Centennial), and Boston promptly banned the film, as Boston was often subject to do with far less reason than they had with this film. The film was tied up in law suits across the country brought against the various blue-nose boards who also blocked its showing, and all this was going on during the collapse of Grand National with GN president E. W. Hammons being hauled to court by exhibitors and creditors, including the production unit headed by this film's producer George A... Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>  

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