Murder with Pictures
movie

Forty Witnesses Saw the Killing, But Not One Could Pick the Killer!
Released September 24, 1936
Overview
Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for the news men where Murdock romances a mystery woman who confronted Girard in front of him, but Murdock's fiancée Hester shows up. After they return to his apartment, have a fight, and she leaves, the mystery woman slips in and begs for his help. Police Inspector Bacon and the cops show up, looking for the mystery woman; Murdock hides her. Murdock goes with the cops to discuss the murder the woman is suspected of. Bacon explains (in flashback) how some photogs were setting up a shot with Girard and Redfield. When the flashbulbs popped, Redfield keeled over dead and the woman, Meg Archer, fled while the newsmen ran out to phone their papers. The newsmen (who were rounded up later as thoroly as possible) are taken into police custody, except for Murdock (who wasn't at the scene), who is given a cap on the sly by rival McGoogin. Altho ...
Cast

Lew Ayres
as
Kent Murdock

Gail Patrick
as
Meg Archer

Paul Kelly
as
I.B. McGoogin

Benny Baker
as
Phil Doane

Ernest Cossart
as
Stanley Redfield

Onslow Stevens
as
Nate Girard

Joyce Compton
as
Hester Boone
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Anthony Nace
as
Joe Cusick

Joe Sawyer
as
Inspector Tom Bacon

Don Rowan
as
Siki

Frank Sheridan
as
Police Chief

Irving Bacon
as
Det. Keogh
Crew
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Sidney Salkow
as
Screenplay

Edith Head
as
Costume Design

Charles Barton
as
Director
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George Harmon Coxe
as
Screenplay

Ted Tetzlaff
as
Director of Photography
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Boris Morros
as
Music Director
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John B. Goodman
as
Art Direction
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A. E. Freudeman
as
Set Decoration

Friedrich Hollaender
as
Original Music Composer
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Phil Boutelje
as
Original Music Composer

Victor Young
as
Original Music Composer

Adolph Zukor
as
Presenter