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''The Trumpet Blows'' is a 1934 American
Pre-Code Pre-Code Hollywood was the brief era in the Cinema of the United States, American film industry between the widespread adoption of sound in film in 1929LaSalle (2002), p. 1. and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorshi ...
film directed by Stephen Roberts, featuring
George Raft George Raft (born George Ranft; September 26, 1901 – November 24, 1980) was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s. A stylish leading man in dozens of movies, Raft is ...
as a Mexican
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,
Adolphe Menjou Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, 1890 – October 29, 1963) was an American actor. His career spanned both silent films and talkies. He appeared in such films as Charlie Chaplin's ''A Woman of Paris'', where he played the lead role; Stanley K ...
as a retired bandito clearly based on
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, and Frances Drake as Chulita, the woman they both want to marry.Everett Aaker, ''The Films of George Raft'', McFarland & Company, 2013, pp 49-50 The film was written by Bartlett Cormack and Wallace Smith, and directed by Stephen Roberts. The film was a box office disappointment.


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Helen Twelvetreees was originally announced as female lead.


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at Variety 1934 films Films directed by Stephen Roberts 1934 drama films Films set in Mexico American drama films American black-and-white films 1930s English-language films 1930s American films {{1930s-drama-film-stub