Strange Alibi | |
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Directed by | D. Ross Lederman |
Written by | Kenneth Gamet Leslie T. White Fred Niblo Jr. |
Produced by | Bryan Foy |
Starring | Arthur Kennedy Joan Perry Jonathan Hale John Ridgely Florence Bates Charles Trowbridge |
Cinematography | Allen G. Siegler |
Edited by | Frank Magee |
Music by | Howard Jackson William Lava |
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Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 63 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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Geary discovers that a police captain is the criminal mastermind. Sprague is killed, though, and Geary framed when nobody believes his story about being undercover. While jailed, his fiancée Alice Devlin works to clear his name. Geary breaks out of jail and personally goes to the reform-minded governor to prove his innocence.
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