The Payoff (1942)
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The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried as it appeared to be.
- Date of release
- 1942-11-24
- TMDB
- 5.9 / 10 (9)
- Runtime
- 1h 14m
- Genres
- Action, Thriller, Crime, Mystery
- Director
- Arthur Dreifuss
Casting
- Lee Tracy — Brad McKay
- Tom Brown — Guy Norris
- Tina Thayer — Phyllis Walker
- Evelyn Brent — Alma Dorn
- Jack La Rue — John Angus
- Ian Keith — Inspector Thomas
- Robert Middlemass — Lester Norris
- John Maxwell — Moroni
- John Sheehan — Sgt. Brenen
- Harry C. Bradley — Dr. Steele (as Harry Bradley)
- Forrest Taylor — Hugh Walker
- Pat Costello — Pat - Reporter
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