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Title: The Roadhouse Murder (1932)
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Dorothy Jordan | ... | Mary Agnew | |
| Eric Linden | ... | Chick Brian | |
| Purnell Pratt | ... | Inspector William Agnew | |
| Roscoe Ates | ... | Edmund Joyce (as Rosco Ates) | |
| David Landau | ... | Kraft | |
| Bruce Cabot | ... | Fred Dykes | |
| Phyllis Clare | ... | Louise Rand | |
| Gustav von Seyffertitz | ... | Charles Spengler (as Gustav Von Seyffertitz) | |
| Roscoe Karns | ... | Jeff Dale | |
| William Morris | ... | Judge | |
| Frank Sheridan | ... | District Attorney | |
| Carl Gerard | ... | Defense Attorney | |
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Chick Brian, overeager cub reporter, is stranded during a storm with his girlfriend Mary at the remote Lame Dog Inn. As Mary says, 'What a creepy place!' Soon, they're alone in the house with the victims of a double murder...and Chick has the silly idea of incriminating himself (hiding evidence of his innocence for later) to gain journalistic fame. Things go wrong and the electric chair looms... Written by Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
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Written by Harry Ruby
Lyrics by Bert Kalmar
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THREE LITTLE WORDS(1930) (uncredited)
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Oh, where to even start with this sad B movie.
An ambitious young reporter who wants to get married and provide for his wife gets caught in a downpour with his fiancée. They duck into an inn. Hearing noise, they find someone in the next room dead, as well as the guy who let them in. The killer was a guy looking for money, and he had a woman with him -- they find the money, but she leaves her purse behind with her name and address inside.
The reporter sets himself up as the murderer, but gives his fiancée the purse to keep to prove his innocence. He calls in the murder anonymously and then sends reports in of how it feels to be hiding and on the run from the cops.
Eric Linden plays the idiot reporter who apparently never heard of hard work rather than schemes, and Dorothy Jordan, who is in for a life of misery if she marries this guy, is his fiancée.
This was Bruce Cabot's first credited film, and soon after, he saved Fay Wray from King Kong.
The film will remind some of the Fritz Lang film, "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt," which I happen to love. It will remind you of it, and then, hopefully, you will forget the comparison since there really isn't one.