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Parole Fixer | |
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Directed by | Robert Florey |
Screenplay by | William R. Lipman Horace McCoy |
Based on | Persons in Hiding 1938 book by J. Edgar Hoover |
Produced by | Edward T. Lowe Jr. |
Starring | William Henry Lyle Talbot Virginia Dale Richard Denning Anthony Quinn Robert Paige |
Cinematography | Harry Fischbeck |
Edited by | Harvey Johnston |
Music by | Gerard Carbonara John Leipold Leo Shuken (uncredited) |
Production company | Paramount Pictures |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 58 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Parole Fixer is a 1940 American crime film directed by Robert Florey.
Federal Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover is credited for the source material, the 1938 book called Persons in Hiding, a purported expose of corruption within the parole system.
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