Hell-Bent for Frisco

Hell-Bent for Frisco
Directed by	Stuart Paton
Written by	Arthur Hoerl
Produced by	George W. Weeks
Starring	Charles Delaney Vera Reynolds Carroll Nye
Cinematography	Jules Cronjager
Edited by	Carl Himm
Production company	George W. Weeks Productions
Distributed by	Sono Art-World Wide Pictures
Release date	July 10, 1931 (1931-07-10)
Running time	65 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Hell-Bent for Frisco is a 1931 American pre-Code action film directed by Stuart Paton and starring Charles Delaney, Vera Reynolds and Carroll Nye. ^[1]

Plot

After his girlfriend's brother is murdered, a San Francisco newspapermen goes on the track of his killers.

Cast

• Charles Delaney as Jimmy Gray
• Vera Reynolds as Ellen Garwood
• Carroll Nye as Lane Garwood
• Wesley Barry as The Newsboy
• William Desmond as The Editor
• Edmund Burns as Frank Kenton
• Reed Howes as Red
• Charles Craig as Dr. Clayton
• Richard Cramer as Nick
• George Regas as Tony
• Tom O'Brien as Fogarty

Lost film status

As of 16 August 2006, The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture, a project of the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism has not found an existing copy of the film. ^[2]

References

1. Darby, p. 107
2. The following are films we still are attempting to locate as part of our research for the Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture project - The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture , a project of the Norman Lear Center

Bibliography

• Darby, William. Masters of Lens and Light: A Checklist of Major Cinematographers and Their Feature Films. Scarecrow Press, 1991.

External links

• Hell-Bent for Frisco at IMDb