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Held For Ransom is a american film of genre Crime released in USA on 17 june 1938 with Grant Withers

Held For Ransom (1938)

Held For Ransom
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Released in USA 17 june 1938
Length 59minutes
OriginUSA
Genres Crime
Rating52% 2.6305852.6305852.6305852.6305852.630585

Held for Ransom is a 1938 American film directed by Clarence Bricker.

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is also a book written by sylvia Moody

Actors

Grant Withers

(Larry Scott)Blanche Mehaffey
Jack Mulhall

(Morrison)Kenneth Harlan

(McBride)Harry Harvey, Sr.

(Mole)
And :
Walter McGrail
Moore Marriott
Tom Fadden
Joseph W. Girard
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