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Lady Killer is a american film of genre Drama directed by Roy Del Ruth released in USA on 9 december 1933 with James Cagney
Lady Killer (1933)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 9 december 1933
Length 1h16
Directed by Roy Del Ruth
OriginUSA
Themes Films about television
Rating69%
Lady Killer is a 1933 American Pre-Code film starring James Cagney, Mae Clarke, and Margaret Lindsay, based on the story "The Finger Man" by Rosalind Keating Shaffer. The picture was directed by Roy Del Ruth.
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After being fired as a theater usher, Dan Quigley (James Cagney) tracks down Myra Gale (Mae Clarke) to her apartment and returns the purse she dropped. He then sits in on a poker game with her "brother-in-law", Spade Maddock (Douglass Dumbrille), Duke (Leslie Fenton), Smiley (Russell Hopton) and Pete (Raymond Hatton). After he loses all his money, he leaves, only to run into another person trying to return Myra's purse. Realizing he has been conned, he threatens to go to the police ... unless they let him join them, telling them he has some profitable ideas.Actors
James Cagney
(Dan Quigley)
Mae Clarke
(Myra Gale)
Margaret Lindsay
(Lois Underwood)
Douglass Dumbrille
(Spade Maddock)
Raymond Hatton
(Pete)
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