Nancy Steele Is Missing!

1937 film by George Marshall

  • March 12, 1937 (1937-03-12)
Running time
84 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Nancy Steele Is Missing! is a 1937 American drama film directed by George Marshall and Otto Preminger and starring Victor McLaglen, Walter Connolly and Peter Lorre.[1] It was produced and distributed by Twentieth Century Fox. The film's sets were designed by the British art director Hans Peters. It has been described as a precursor to film noir.[2]

Plot

Cast

  • Victor McLaglen as Dannie O'Neill
  • Walter Connolly as Michael Steele
  • Peter Lorre as Prof. Sturm
  • June Lang as Sheila O'Neill - aka Nancy Steele
  • Robert Kent as Jimmie Wilson
  • Shirley Deane as Nancy
  • John Carradine as Harry Wilkins
  • Jane Darwell as Mrs. Mary Flaherty
  • Frank Conroy as Dan Mallon
  • Granville Bates as Joseph F.X. Flaherty
  • George Taylor as Gus Crowder
  • Kane Richmond as Tom - Steele's Chauffeur
  • Margaret Fielding as Miss Hunt
  • DeWitt Jennings as Doctor on Farm
  • George Chandler as Counter Clerk
  • George Humbert as Giuseppe Spano
  • Edgar Dearing as Detective Flynn

References

  1. ^ Thomas p.83
  2. ^ Grant p.143-44

Bibliography

  • Grant, Kevin. Roots of Film Noir: Precursors from the Silent Era to the 1940s. McFarland, 2022.
  • Thomas, Sarah. Peter Lorre: Face Maker: Constructing Stardom and Performance in Hollywood and Europe. Berghahn Books, 2012.

External links

  • Nancy Steele Is Missing! at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
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