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Tell No Tales

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Original title

Tell No Tales

Year

1939

Running time

69 min.

Country

United States

Director

Leslie Fenton

Screenwriter

Lionel Houser, Edward Chodorov. Story: Pauline London, Alfred Taylor

Cast

Music

William Axt

Cinematography

Joseph Ruttenberg (B&W)

Producer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Genre

Film noir. Thriller. Drama | Crime. Journalism

Synopsis

Michael Cassidy is the managing-editor of a small newspaper which is about to be closed down by its new owner, Matthew Cooper, who owns another newspaper in the city and only bought the second one to get rid of the competition. There has been a kidnapping in the city and Cassidy gets one of the hundred-dollar-bills, paid in ransom, at a saloon and begins to trace the bill backwards step-by-step to get to the kidnappers. He is aided by Ellen Frazier, a schoolteacher, who is the only eye-witness. Each step leads to a miniature drama of it own to...to the widow, Ruby Alley, at the wake of her dead prizefighter-husband...to the owner of a gambling house, Arno, who discovers that his brother, the cashier of the casino, is involved in the kidnapping...to a husband who is not thrilled to learn his wife ahas been cheating on him...before he finds the kidnappers.

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Tell No Tales

1939

Leslie Fenton