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Emergency Squad (1940)
Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Overview
Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies where lives are at stake. Slade Wiley, an unscrupulous tunnel builder, finds that his low bid on the Newford Tunnel project is causing him to lose a lot of money, and has underworld leader Nick Burton set off blasts to frighten the stockholders into selling their shares at a low price so he can buy up the stock. Betty is investigating the deal when Wiley and Burton take her on a “tour trip” to the tunnel.
Length 58 minutes
Actors
William Henry | Louise Campbell | Richard Denning | Robert Paige | Anthony Quinn | John Miljan | John Marston | Joseph Crehan | Sam Ash | Barbara Barondess | Henry Blair | Stanley Blystone | Wade Boteler | George Bunny | Sonny Bupp | Tommy Bupp | A.S. Byron | Donald Curtis | Kenne Duncan | Jimmie Dundee | Jack Egan | Lillian Elliott | Maude Fealy | Walter Fenner | Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian | Weldon Heyburn | Darryl Hickman | Carol Holloway | George Humbert | Jack Kennedy | Willard Kent | George McKay | Ivan Miller | Howard M. Mitchell | Rex Moore | Norma Gene Nelson | Pat O'Malley | James Pierce | Catherine Proctor | Wilfred Roberts | Oscar Rudolph | James Seay | Frank Shannon | Georgia Simmons | Walter Tetley | Eduardo Thomajan | Zeffie Tilbury