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  • International Crime (1938)
  • Passed
    62 min | Drama
International Crime (1938)
Passed
62 min | Drama

Lamont Cranston (Rod La Rocque), amateur criminologist and detective, with a daily radio program, sponsored by the Daily Classic newspaper, has developed a friendly feud that sometimes passes the friendly stage with Police Commissioner ...See moreLamont Cranston (Rod La Rocque), amateur criminologist and detective, with a daily radio program, sponsored by the Daily Classic newspaper, has developed a friendly feud that sometimes passes the friendly stage with Police Commissioner Weston (Thomas E. Jackson). He complains to his managing editor, Edward Heath (Oscar O'Shea), over the problems that have developed in his department since Phoebe Lane (Astrid Allwyn) has been hired as his assistant. He is advised to forget it since she is the publisher's niece. During his broadcast about Honest John (William Pawley), a famous safe cracker who has served his time, Phoebe gives him a note that the Metropolitan Theatre is to be robbed at eight o'clock and she is so insistent that he adds it as his closing note. Off the air, he learns she got the information from a man she met in a café who had an honest face. Cranston goes to the theatre where Weston and his men have gathered and, of course, nothing happens but, across town, a safe is blown at the home of international banker Gerald Morton (John St. Polis) and the banker is killed. Cranston arrives there ahead of the police and discovers enough evidence to show him that it wasn't just a simple robbery with the banker accidentally killed. The irate Weston has him jailed as a material witness, but Phoebe comes through with a habeas corpus in time for him to make his broadcast. Honest John crashes into the studio with a gun and demands that Cranston exonerates him over the air from the police suspicion that he committed the robbery. Weston rushes to the studio but Honest John has escaped. Cranston takes Phoebe on a tour of night clubs hoping she will spot the man who gave her the robbery message. She does and Cranston poses as a new arrival from Europe and learns that the man is Flotow (Wilhelm von Brincken) and his companion is Starkov (Tenen Holtz'). They make a date for lunch the next day. While they are waiting for him to join them for lunch, Cranston breaks into Flathow's apartment where he meets Phoebe who also has had the same idea. A phone call is answered and Morton's butler says there is a meeting at the Morton home that afternoon. Written by Les Adams See less
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Director
Writers
Theodore A. Tinsley (story "Foxhound") (as Maxwell Grant) | Jack Natteford (screenplay) | John W. Krafft (additional dialogue) (as John Krafft)
Cinematographer
Editor
Charles Henkel Jr. (as Charles Henkel)
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Updated Apr 22, 1938

Release date
Apr 23, 1938 (United States)

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28 cast members
Name Known for
Rod La Rocque
Lamont Cranston Lamont Cranston   See fewer
Astrid Allwyn
Phoebe Lane Phoebe Lane   See fewer
Thomas E. Jackson
Commissioner Weston (as Thomas Jackson) Commissioner Weston (as Thomas Jackson)   See fewer
Wilhelm von Brincken
Flotow (as Wm. von Brincken) Flotow (as Wm. von Brincken)   See fewer
Tenen Holtz
Starkhov Starkhov   See fewer
William Pawley
Honest John (as Wm. Pawley) Honest John (as Wm. Pawley)   See fewer
Peter Potter
Burke (as Wm. Moore) Burke (as Wm. Moore)   See fewer
John St. Polis
Roger Morton Roger Morton   See fewer
Jack Baxley
Matthews Matthews   See fewer
Walter Bonn
Steffen Steffen   See fewer
Harry C. Bradley
Barrows (as Harry Bradley) Barrows (as Harry Bradley)   See fewer
Ernie Adams
Jail Prisoner (uncredited) Jail Prisoner (uncredited)   See fewer
John Alban
Restaurant Patron (uncredited) Restaurant Patron (uncredited)   See fewer
Jack Cheatham
Officer Frank McKay (uncredited) Officer Frank McKay (uncredited)   See fewer
Jack Chefe
Waiter (uncredited) Waiter (uncredited)   See fewer
Kernan Cripps
Weston's Assistant (uncredited) Weston's Assistant (uncredited)   See fewer
Lester Dorr
Radio Operator (uncredited) Radio Operator (uncredited)   See fewer
Edward Hearn
Policeman (uncredited) Policeman (uncredited)   See fewer
James C. Morton
Radio Listener (uncredited) Radio Listener (uncredited)   See fewer
Frank Nelson
E.R.O.M. Announcer (uncredited) E.R.O.M. Announcer (uncredited)   See fewer
William H. O'Brien
Bartender (uncredited) Bartender (uncredited)   See fewer
Paul Panzer
Rudolf (uncredited) Rudolf (uncredited)   See fewer
Harry Semels
Violinist (uncredited) Violinist (uncredited)   See fewer
Nick Stewart
Shoeshine Boy (uncredited) Shoeshine Boy (uncredited)   See fewer
Lloyd Whitlock
Attorney (uncredited) Attorney (uncredited)   See fewer
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