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Bureau of Missing Persons is a american film of genre Drama directed by Roy Del Ruth released in USA on 16 september 1933 with Pat O'Brien
Bureau of Missing Persons (1933)
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Add to a movie listBureau of Missing Persons is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film with comic overtones directed by Roy Del Ruth. The screenplay by Robert Presnell is based on a story by Carol Bird adapted from the book Missing Men by former New York City police captain John H. Ayers.
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Amid vignettes involving a philandering husband who fakes amnesia, a child prodigy who yearns to live a normal life, an aging bachelor whose housekeeper has disappeared, and an old lady whose daughter has run away, the primary plot line focuses on brash detective Butch Saunders, who is assigned to find missing Chicago banker Therme Roberts. Butch finds himself attracted to the man's wife Norma, despite the fact they're both married, so when his superior, Captain Webb, tells him she really is Norma Phillips and the man she claims is missing is not her husband but the person she has been accused of murdering, he doesn't believe her. Norma fakes her suicide by drowning and disappears, but can't resist returning when Butch stages her funeral in the hope she'll surface. Not only she but the missing Roberts, as well, turn up at the services. Norma tells Butch she once was Roberts' secretary, and he killed his mentally disturbed twin brother and assumed his identity in order to avoid embezzlement charges. Roberts denies her accusations, but Webb tricks him into admitting his guilt. Norma is cleared and, when Butch learns his wife Belle never divorced her first husband, the two are free to wed.Actors
Pat O'Brien
(Detective Butch Saunders)
Lewis Stone
(Police Captain Webb)
Glenda Farrell
(Belle Howard Saunders)
Allen Jenkins
(Detective Joe Musik)
Bette Davis
(Norma Roberts)
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