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Nancy Steele Is Missing!

  • 19371937
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 24m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
99
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POPULARITY
158,644
939
Peter Lorre, June Lang, and Victor McLaglen in Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937)
Drama
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, ... Read allAfter 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.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.
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
99
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
158,644
939
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    • Directors
      • George Marshall
      • Otto Preminger(uncredited)
    • Writers
      • Charles Francis Coe(story "Ransom")
      • Gene Fowler
      • Hal Long
    • Stars
      • Victor McLaglen
      • Walter Connolly
      • Peter Lorre
    Top credits
    • Directors
      • George Marshall
      • Otto Preminger(uncredited)
    • Writers
      • Charles Francis Coe(story "Ransom")
      • Gene Fowler
      • Hal Long
    • Stars
      • Victor McLaglen
      • Walter Connolly
      • Peter Lorre
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    • 5User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
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    Walter Connolly and June Lang in Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937)
    Peter Lorre in Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937)
    Granville Bates and Victor McLaglen in Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937)
    Shirley Deane and June Lang in Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937)
    June Lang and Victor McLaglen in Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937)
    Victor McLaglen in Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937)

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    Victor McLaglen
    Victor McLaglen
    • Dannie O'Neill
    Walter Connolly
    Walter Connolly
    • Michael Steele
    Peter Lorre
    Peter Lorre
    • Prof. Sturm
    June Lang
    June Lang
    • Sheila O'Neill - aka Nancy Steele
    Robert Kent
    Robert Kent
    • Jimmie Wilson
    Shirley Deane
    Shirley Deane
    • Nancy
    John Carradine
    John Carradine
    • Harry Wilkins
    Jane Darwell
    Jane Darwell
    • Mrs. Mary Flaherty
    Frank Conroy
    Frank Conroy
    • Dan Mallon
    Granville Bates
    Granville Bates
    • Joseph F.X. Flaherty
    George Taylor
    • Gus Crowder
    Kane Richmond
    Kane Richmond
    • Tom - Steele's Chauffeur
    Margaret Fielding
    • Miss Hunt
    DeWitt Jennings
    DeWitt Jennings
    • Doctor on Farm
    George Chandler
    George Chandler
    • Counter Clerk
    George Humbert
    George Humbert
    • Giuseppe Spano
    Bob Murphy
    • Detective with Cigar
    • (as Robert Murphy)
    Edgar Dearing
    Edgar Dearing
    • Detective Flynn
    • (as Ed Deering)
    • Directors
      • George Marshall
      • Otto Preminger(uncredited)
    • Writers
      • Charles Francis Coe(story "Ransom")
      • Gene Fowler
      • Hal Long
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Wallace Beery was originally assigned the lead role, and Otto Preminger was assigned to direct. However, shortly after filming began, 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), replaced Beery with Victor McLaglen for this film and replaced Preminger with George Marshall.
    • 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.

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    9/10
    A Gothic Crime Story
    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.
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    • telegonus
    • Apr 15, 2003

    Details

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    • Release date
      • March 12, 1937 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The Lost Nancy Steele
    • Filming locations
      • 20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Twentieth Century Fox
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 24 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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