Wrecking Crew

Wrecking Crew (1942)

THRILLS! CHILLS!...HIGH OVER A CITY'S ROOFTOPS!

Follows a crew as they work under a deadline set by their boss to complete the demolition of a building. Touches on the lives of several of the crew in their lives away from the job and shows rhe comraderie of the crew in their work and even away from work.

Date of release
1942-11-07
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 13m
Genres
Action, Drama
Director
Frank McDonald

Casting

Interesting facts

Wrecking Crew is a 1942 American drama film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Richard Arlen, Jean Parker, and Chester Morris.

Production

The title of the original story by the team of Robert Shannon and Mauri Grashin was Alley Cat. Paramount announced in November 1941 that they had purchased the story as a vehicle for Chester Morris. It was then known as Wreckage Crew.

The film was one of a series of movies made by Pine-Thomas Productions about people working in tough, outdoor professions, others being Wildcat (oil drilling) and Alaska Highway (highway construction). Writer Richard Murphy researched the story by following wreckers.

Arline Judge and Arthur Hunnicut who had just made Wildcat for Pine-Thomas were originally announced in the cast along with Morris, Parker and Arlen. Grant Withers was announced for the villain. Judge, Hunnicut and Withers did not appear in the final film.

Filming began February 1942. The fight scene between Arlen and Morris took nine hours to rehearse and film. Bill Thomas did some second unit filming of buildings being wrecked in New York because there was not enough of them in Los Angeles.

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