Mister Dynamite (1935)
RUTHLESS and DANGEROUS - he was a load of TNT, this master detective who snarled 'em with a smile.
A gambler hires a detective to investigate when a murder is committed in his casino.
- Date of release
- 1935-04-22
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 1h 7m
- Genres
- Crime, Mystery
- Director
- Alan Crosland
Casting
- Edmund Lowe — T.N. Thompson / Mr. Dynamite
- Jean Dixon — Lynn Marlo
- Victor Varconi — Jarl Dvorjak
- Esther Ralston — Charmian Dvorjak
- Verna Hillie — Mona Lewis
- Minor Watson — Clark Lewis
- Robert Gleckler — James V. King - Chief of Detectives
- Jameson Thomas — Carey Williams
- Greta Meyer — Jans
- Frank Lyman — D.H. Matthews
- G. Pat Collins — Rod
- Bradley Page — Felix
Interesting facts
Mister Dynamite is a 1935 American action film directed by Alan Crosland and written by Doris Malloy and Harry Clork. The film stars Edmund Lowe, Jean Dixon, Victor Varconi, Esther Ralston, Verna Hillie and Minor Watson. The film was released on April 22, 1935, by Universal Pictures.
Development
According to Layman and Rivett, the script for Mister Dynamite was based on a screen treatment written by Dashiell Hammett, commissioned by Darryl Zanuck at Warner Bros. for "another original Sam Spade story," following the first film adaption of Hammett's The Maltese Falcon.
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