Parole Fixer

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Parole Fixer
Directed by Robert Florey
Screenplay byWilliam R. Lipman
Horace McCoy
Based onPersons 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
  • February 2, 1940 (1940-02-02)
Running time
58 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Parole Fixer is a 1940 American crime film directed by Robert Florey.

Contents

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.

Plot

Gangster "Big Boy" Bradmore is wrongly paroled from prison and promptly murders an FBI agent.

Cast


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