''Danger Ahead'' is a 1935 American
crime drama film
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directed by
Albert Herman
Albert Herman (1887–1958) was an American actor, screenwriter and film director. Herman was a prolific director, working mainly on low-budget movies for companies such as Producers Releasing Corporation. He is sometimes credited as Al Herman. ...
, produced and released by
Victory Pictures Corporation Victory Pictures Corporation was a California-based film production and distribution company that operated from 1935–39. It was owned by Sam Katzman and specialised in making low-budget movies, predominantly Westerns. It made two serials and 30 fi ...
.
Plot
Captain Matthews is paid $40,000 for a silk shipment from China. The Green Eagle Café owner has the captain called away for a phone call but is robbed of the money. Local reporter sees the robbery and after a fist fight gets the money back. He runs into the local delicatessen and hides the money. The reporter gets a headline story and gets to meet the captain's daughter. Conrad and his henchman pose as the captain to get the cash returned.
Cast
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Lawrence Gray
Lawrence Gray (July 28, 1898 – February 2, 1970) was an American actor of the 1920s and 1930s.
Biography
Born in San Francisco in 1898, Gray served during World War I in the U. S. Navy and gained a commission. After the war he began i ...
as Jerry Mason, reporter
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Sheila Bromley
Sheila Bromley (born Sheila LeGay; October 31, 1911 – July 23, 2003), (The reference work ''Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2003'' gave her birth date as October 31, 1907). sometimes billed as Sheila LeGay, Sheila Manners, Sheila Manno ...
as Lorraine Matthews, Captain's daughter
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J. Farrell MacDonald
John Farrell MacDonald (June 6, 1875 – August 2, 1952) was an American character actor and director. He played supporting roles and occasional leads. He appeared in over 325 films over a four-decade career from 1911 to 1951, and directed fort ...
as Harry Cromwell, the city editor
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Fuzzy Knight
John Forrest "Fuzzy" Knight (May 9, 1901 – February 23, 1976) was an American film and television actor. He was also a singer, especially in his early career. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1928 and 1967, usually as a cowboy h ...
as Fred Klein - butcher
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Bryant Washburn as Nick Conrad - gangster
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Fred Kelsey
Frederick Alvin Kelsey (August 20, 1884 – September 2, 1961) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter.
Kelsey directed one- and two-reel films for Universal Film Manufacturing Company. He appeared in more than 400 films betw ...
as Detective O'Brien
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John Elliott as Captain Matthews
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Eddie Phillips as Eddie, henchman
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Arthur Loft as Pete, balding henchman
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Herschel Mayall
Herschel Mayall (July 12, 1863 – June 10, 1941) was an American stage and film actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 110 films between 1912 and 1935.
Biography
He was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and died in Detroit, Mic ...
as Steve, henchman
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Gordon Griffith
Gordon S. Griffith (July 4, 1907 – October 12, 1958) was an American assistant director, film producer, and one of the first child actors in the American movie industry. Griffith worked in the film industry for five decades, acting in ov ...
as Chuck, henchman
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Earl Dwire
Earl Dwire (October 3, 1883 – January 16, 1940), born Earl Dean Dwire, was an American character actor who appeared in more than 150 movies between 1921 and his death in 1940.
Dwire acted for three years in stock theater with companies i ...
as Detective Sergeant
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Richard Cramer
Richard Earl Cramer (July 3, 1889 – August 9, 1960) was an American actor in films from the late 1920s to the early 1950s.
Burly, menacing and gravel-voiced, Cramer specialized in villainous roles in many low-budget westerns, but is today ...
as Detective Hogan
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George Chesebro
George Newell Chesebro (July 29, 1888 – May 28, 1959) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 400 films between 1915 and 1954. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and died in Los Angeles, California.
Partial filmography
* '' M ...
as First Mate Taylor
Production
This was Katzman's first film for his company Victory Pictures. Filming started on 24 June 1935.
References
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1935 films
1930s psychological thriller films
American crime thriller films
American black-and-white films
1930s crime thriller films
Films directed by Albert Herman
1930s English-language films
1930s American films
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