Roaring City

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Roaring City
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Directed by William Berke
Written by
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography Jack Greenhalgh
Edited by
Music by Bert Shefter
Production
company
Spartan Productions
Distributed by Lippert Pictures
Release date
May 4, 1951
Running time
59 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Roaring City is a 1951 American crime film produced and directed by William Berke for Spartan Productions and released by the low-budget Lippert Pictures. The film stars Hugh Beaumont, Edward Brophy and Richard Travis. [1] It is a "dual purpose" B movie, meaning it could contain two story lines so that it could be released as two half hour television shows later. [2] A private detective investigated a boxer's sudden death in San Francisco.

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References

  1. Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series. Washington, D.C., USA: Library of Congress, Copyright Office. 1951. p. 41.
  2. McGee, Mark Thomas (2014). Talk's Cheap, Action's Expensive - The Films of Robert L. Lippert. Albany, Georgia, USA: BearManor Media. pp. 47–48. ISBN   9781593935580.