70,000 Witnesses
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Director Ralph Murphy Country United States | 5.8/10 IMDb Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date September 9, 1932 (1932-09-09) Writer Cortland Fitzsimmons (novel), Garrett Fort, Robert N. Lee, Allen Rivkin, P.J. Wolfson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
70,000 Witnesses is a 1932 American mystery film directed by Ralph Murphy and written by Garrett Fort, Robert N. Lee, Allen Rivkin and P.J. Wolfson. The film stars Phillips Holmes, Dorothy Jordan, Charlie Ruggles, Johnny Mack Brown, J. Farrell MacDonald, Lew Cody and David Landau. The film was released on September 9, 1932, by Paramount Pictures.
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Plot
Buck Buchanan plays football for State, but his criminal brother Slip Buchanan has placed a whopping $350,000 wager on University defeating State in the upcoming big game.
Slip attempts to coerce his brother into drugging a star teammate, Wally Clark, so he is unable to play. Buck refuses to do so, but is distracted on the field of play by his suspicions that Slip will find another way to do Wally harm.
Sure enough, just as Wally is about to score a State touchdown, he collapses at the 5 yard line. As 70,000 spectators look on, Wally is carried from the field and expires. A doctor rules the death accidental, but a police detective, Dan McKenna, is so convinced of foul play, he has the players reassembled and the entire football play re-enacted, solving the case.
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