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Diamond Jim (1935)

88 min · biographical film, drama film

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Directors

A. Edward Sutherland

Cast

Albert Conti, Armand Kaliz, Binnie Barnes, Bobby Burns, Cesar Romero, Charles Sellon, Daisy Bufford, Dell Henderson, Eddie Collins, Edward Arnold, Eily Malyon, Eric Blore, George Sidney, Henry Kolker, J. P. McGowan, Jean Arthur, Jean De Briac, Joseph W. Girard, King Baggot, Malcolm Waite, Murdock MacQuarrie, Otis Harlan, Purnell Pratt, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Robert McWade, Tully Marshall, Wilfrid North, William Demarest, William Worthington

The story

Diamond Jim Brady (Edward Arnold) is born to an Irish saloonkeeper and his wife in 1856, but is soon orphaned. At the age of thirty, working as baggage master at the Spuyten Duyvil train station, he rents a suit and a diamond from a pawn shop, and gets a job as a salesman; soon, he is the top salesman on the staff. While on a cross-continental sales trip, Brady rescues Mr.

Catalogue themes and tags

Biographical film, Drama, Docudrama, Black-and-white, Biopic [feature]

Genres

biographical film, drama film

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