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Rating: 6 stars

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Special Agent (1935)

Directed by William Keighley

Crime

Overview

Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston’s bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston’s organization and Julie cooperates with him to land Carston in jail. An informer squeals on them. Julie is kidnapped by Carston’s henchmen as she is about to testify

Rated NR | Length 76 minutes

Actors

Bette Davis | George Brent | Ricardo Cortez | Jack La Rue | Henry O'Neill | Robert Strange | Joseph Crehan | J. Carrol Naish | Joe Sawyer | William B. Davidson | Robert Barrat | Paul Guilfoyle | Joe King | Irving Pichel | John Alexander | Edwin Argus | Allan Cavan | Eddy Chandler | Alan Davis | John Dilson | Lester Dorr | Frank Fanning | James Flavin | Jerry Fletcher | Eddie Hart | Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian | Thomas E. Jackson | Jerry Jerome | John Kelly | Milton Kibbee | Mike Lally | Tom Mahoney | Larry McGrath | Jack McHugh | Charles Middleton | Bob Montgomery | Gene Morgan | Jack Mower | Louis Natheaux | Billy Naylor | Frank O'Connor | Pat O'Malley | Wheeler Oakman | Garry Owen | Lee Phelps | John Quillan | Herbert Skinner | Martha Tibbetts | Emmett Vogan | Lucille Ward | Huey White | Douglas Wood | Frank Bruno

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Early Bette Davis flick where she’s a bookkeeper turn informant to catch a racketeer. It’s fine.

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