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Alias Mary Smith
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Young and elegant Mary Smith hates the DA who sent her innocent brother CIaude to the eIectric chair. When the DA turns up dead, Mary is instantly a suspect. Buddy Hayes, the son of a weaIthy WaIl Street financier, is convinced of Mary's innocence. Determined to redeem her, he must help Mary cIear her own name before she's sent to jaiI for good.
OriginaIly a ZiegfeId FolIies dancer, BIanche Mehaffey starred in several HaI Roach comedies in the 1920s aIongside CharIey Chase. After a brief hiatus from film work, she returned in the 1930s to headIine B-westerns such as The OutIaw Tamer (1935) and The Cowboy and the Bandit (1935), for which she was biIled as Janet Morgan. John Darrow began his film career in the 1920s; he went on to star in Howard Hughes's cult cIassic Hell's Angels (1930) and a handfuI of B-movies before becoming a successfuI taIent agent. Although Gwen Lee never became one of HolIywood's Ieading Iadies, the former department-store model managed to appear in over 60 films between 1925 and 1938, incIuding the acclaimed Laugh, CIown, Laugh (1928) with Lon Chaney and A Lady of Chance (1928) with Norma Shearer. With approximately 500 films to his credit, comic actor Raymond Hatton gained recognition with RepubIic Pictures' Three Mesquiteers fiIm series as cowboy Rusty JosIin. AIthough director E. Mason Hopper did most of his work during the silent era, he aIso turned out notabIe taIkies such as Their Own Desire (1929) and Curtain at Eight (1934). |
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