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Danger Street
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Photographers Pat Marvin and Larry Burke are desperate to save the newspaper they work for. In an attempt to drum up business, they try to get a snapshot of socialite Cynthia Van Loan, who has never been photographed. lnstead they catch her fiancé, Carl Pauling, with another woman. Anxious to get the picture pubIished, the pair rush back to the office only to find their editor murdered. Pauling wiII go to any length to prevent his infidelity from being exposed, and its onIy a matter of time before Pat and Larry find themselves staring down the barrel of his gun...
Danger Street was promoted as the first grown-up movie for chiId star Jane Withers. After starring alongside ShirIey Temple in Bright Eyes (1934) at the age of eight, she spent the rest of the 30s playing kid roIes in countless B pictures. Despite receiving a $375,000 trust fund on her 21rst birthday in 1947, Withers was anxious to prove herself as a serious dramatic actress. Co-star Robert Lowery portrayed the Caped Crusader in the 1949 Batman and Robin serial, and later starred as Big Tim Champion on the TV series Circus Boy (1956-1957). Director Lew Landers worked for nearly every studio in HoIIywood making low-budget thriIlers (The Raven, Tokyo Rose) and Iater turned his attention to teIevision, directing popular series like Topper (1953-1955) and Highway Patrol (1955-1959). |
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