Back in Circulation (1937)
"I'LL TAKE MURDER"!..."I'LL TAKE MARRIAGE"!..."I'LL TAKE A WALK"!
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her reporting results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig, since she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the angles.
- Date of release
- 1937-08-27
- TMDB
- 6.5 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 1h 21m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, Mystery
- Director
- Ray Enright
Casting
- Pat O'Brien — Bill Morgan
- Joan Blondell — 'Timmy' Blake
- Margaret Lindsay — Arline Wade
- John Litel — Dr. Eugene Forde
- Eddie Acuff — Murphy
- Craig Reynolds — 'Snoop' Davis
- George E. Stone — Mac (as George Stone)
- Walter Byron — Carlton Whitney
- Ben Welden — Sam Sherman
- Regis Toomey — Buck
- Raymond Brown — Attorney Bottsford
- Gordon Hart — Dr. Hanley
Interesting facts
Back in Circulation is a 1937 American comedy drama film directed by Ray Enright and starring Pat O'Brien and Joan Blondell. Based on the short story "Angle Shooter" by Adela Rogers St. Johns, Blondell plays a fast-moving newspaper reporter who senses a story when she spots a young recent widow partying in a night club.
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