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Director
  
Frank R. Strayer

Music director
  
Sidney Cutner

Duration
  

Language
  
English

5.4/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Mystery, Thriller

Screenplay
  
John W. Krafft

Country
  
United States

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Release date
  
September 17, 1935 (1935-09-17)

Writer
  
John W. Krafft (story)

Cast
  
Russell Hopton
(Det. Lt. Ted Mallory),
Lola Lane
(Kay Palmer),
George F. Marion
(Jim Gray),
John St. Polis
(Prof. Trowbridge),
Lee Kohlmar
(Prof. Ernst Einfeld),
Lew Kelly
(Det. Regan)

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Death from a Distance is a 1935 American film directed by Frank R. Strayer.

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It was the first feature film broadcast on U.S. commercial television, on July 2, 1941, during the first week of official commercial broadcasts on NBC's New York television station WNBT-TV.

Plot summary

While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of the audience member is found dead. A tough detective and a brassy female reporter lock horns as they both try to break the case.

Cast

  • Russell Hopton as Det. Lt. Ted Mallory
  • Lola Lane as Kay Palmer
  • George F. Marion as Jim Gray
  • Lee Kohlmar as Prof. Ernst Einfeld
  • John St. Polis as Prof. Trowbridge
  • Lew Kelly as Det. Regan
  • E.H. Calvert as District Attorney
  • Wheeler Oakman as Langsdale, aka George Fremont
  • Robert Frazer as Morgan
  • Cornelius Keefe as Clay Gorman
  • John Davidson as Ahmad Haidru
  • John Dilson as Newspaper Editor McConnell
  • Herb Vigran as the Police Photographer
  • References

    Death from a Distance Wikipedia
    Death from a Distance IMDb Death from a Distance themoviedb.org


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