The Menace

The Menace (1932)

A man framed for murder escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence.

Date of release
1932-01-29
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (5)
Runtime
1h 4m
Genres
Mystery, Crime, Drama
Director
Roy William Neill

Casting

Interesting facts

The Menace is a 1932 American pre-Code American crime drama film directed by Roy William Neill. The screenplay by Roy Chanslor, Dorothy Howell, and Charles Logue is based on the 1927 novel The Feathered Serpent by Edgar Wallace.

Production

When Columbia Pictures purchased the film rights to Edgar Wallace's novel The Feathered Serpent, the author was working as a screenwriter at the studio, but the film adaptation's budget was so small it did not allow for Wallace to write the script at the salary he was drawing at the time. The film was shot in only eight days.

Bette Davis, under contract to Universal Pictures, was loaned to Columbia for the small supporting role of Peggy Lowell. Also in the cast was Murray Kinnell, who recommended Davis to his close friend George Arliss when he was searching for an actress for the ingenue role in The Man Who Played God, which generally is acknowledged as the film that finally brought the actress to the attention of critics and the movie-going public.

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