Special Agent (1935 film)
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Language English | 7.2/10 Genre Crime, Drama Duration Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date September 14, 1935 (1935-09-14) Production Warner Bros. Entertainment Cast (Julie Gardner), (Bill Bradford), (Alexander Carston), (Jake Andrews), Henry O'Neill (District Attorney Roger Quinn), Robert Strange (Waxey Armitage)Similar movies Unholy Partners , The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest , All the President's Men , Ace in the Hole , Angels with Dirty Faces |
Special Agent is a 1935 American drama film directed by William Keighley and starring Bette Davis. The screenplay by Laird Doyle and Abem Finkel is based on a story by Martin Mooney.
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Special agent 1949 crime thriller
Plot

Newspaper reporter Bill Bradford is deputized as a treasury agent by the Internal Revenue Bureau and assigned to find enough evidence to charge gangster Alexander Carston with tax evasion.

He learns that Carston's ledgers are kept in a code known only to his secretary, Julie Gardner. When she witnesses the murder of a man who double-crossed her boss, Bill begs her to quit her job, but Julie realizes she knows too much for Carston to let her go.

District Attorney Roger Quinn pressures the murdered man's partner into testifying, but Carston learns of the plan and the witness is murdered and Carston is acquitted. Julie is arrested as a material witness and decodes the books, but is kidnapped by Carston's henchmen before she can testify. Bill tricks Carston into taking him where Julie is being held, and the police trail them. A shootout follows and Julie is rescued. Her testimony sends Carston to Alcatraz, and she accepts Bill's marriage proposal.
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Reception
The New York Times called the film a "crisp, fast moving and thoroughly entertaining melodrama" and "a wild and woolly gangland saga", adding, "It all has been done before, but somehow it never seems to lose its visual excitement."
Radio adaptation
Special Agent was presented on Warner Brothers Academy Theater April 24, 1938. Carole Landis and John Ridgely starred in the 30-minute adaptation.
References
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