Murder with Pictures (1936)

Directors

Charles Barton

Cast

Benny Baker, Edmund Burns, Ernest Cossart, Frank Sheridan, Gail Patrick, Irving Bacon, Joe Sawyer, Joyce Compton, Lew Ayres, Onslow Stevens, Paul Kelly, Purnell Pratt

The story

After gangster Nate Girard (Onslow Stevens) is acquitted of the murder of Arch Cusick, his lawyer Stanley Redfield (Ernest Cossart) invites the press to a party at his apartment during which he is killed. At the party newspaper photographer Kent Murdock (Lew Ayres) meets Meg Archer (Gail Patrick) who later escapes to Ayres' apartment in the same building after Redfield is killed. The police suspect Archer is responsible for the murder, but are unable to find her, even though she is hiding in Murdock's shower.

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