Hell-Bent for Frisco

Hell-Bent for Frisco is a 1931 American pre-Code action film directed by Stuart Paton and starring Charles Delaney, Vera Reynolds and Carroll Nye.

Plot

After his girlfriend's brother is murdered, a San Francisco newspapermen goes on the track of his killers.

Cast

• Charles Delaney as Jimmy Gray
• Vera Reynolds as Ellen Garwood
• Carroll Nye as Lane Garwood
• Wesley Barry as The Newsboy
• William Desmond as The Editor
• Edmund Burns as Frank Kenton
• Reed Howes as Red
• Charles Craig as Dr. Clayton
• Richard Cramer as Nick
• George Regas as Tony
• Tom O'Brien as Fogarty

Lost film status

As of 16 August 2006, The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture, a project of the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism has not found an existing copy of the film.

References

Bibliography

• Darby, William. Masters of Lens and Light: A Checklist of Major Cinematographers and Their Feature Films. Scarecrow Press, 1991.

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