''Below the Deadline'' is a 1921 American silent

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directed by

J.P. McGowan John Paterson McGowan (February 24, 1880 – March 26, 1952) was a pioneering Hollywood actor and director and occasionally a screenwriter and producer. McGowan remains the only Australian to have been made a life member of the Screen Directo ...

and starring

Lillian Biron Lillian Biron (1898 – 1957), also known as Lillian Thompson, was an actress in American comedy films. She was in Vogue Comedies. She then featured in Gayety Comedies with George Ovey. She starred in '' Below the Deadline'' with H. B. Warner. ...

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and Robert Anderson.Munden p.50

Cast

* J.B. Warner as Joe Donovan *

as Alice Elliot *

as Buck Elliot * Robert Anderson as Hot Dog Heine

References

Bibliography

* Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.

External links

* 1920s American films 1921 films 1921 crime films 1920s English-language films American silent feature films American crime films American black-and-white films Films directed by J. P. McGowan {{1920s-US-film-stub