Tell No Tales (film)
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Duration Language English | 6.6/10 IMDb Genre Crime, Mystery, Drama Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date May 12, 1939 (1939-05-12) Writer Lionel Houser (screenplay), Pauline London (based on a story by), Alfred Taylor (based on a story by) Cast (Michael Cassidy), (Ellen Frazier), (Arno), (Matt Cooper (as Douglas Dumbrille)), Florence George (Lorna Travers), (Dr. Lovelake)Similar movies The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest , The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , All the President's Men , Ace in the Hole , Boeing, Boeing , Call Northside 777 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tell No Tales is a 1939 American crime film directed by Leslie Fenton and written by Lionel Houser. The film stars Melvyn Douglas, Louise Platt, Gene Lockhart, Douglass Dumbrille, Florence George and Halliwell Hobbes. The film was released on May 12, 1939, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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Plot
Michael Cassidy is a reporter for a newspaper that publisher Matt Cooper is putting out of business. Cooper owns a second paper, a more lurid, scandal-filled one. Cassidy abhors it and cites as an example its shameful treatment of innocent schoolteacher Ellen Frazier, a witness in a current kidnapping case.
Cassidy decides to go see Ellen, and, posing as a lawyer, persuades her to elude police officers who are protecting her. Determined to discover who's behind the kidnapping before that night's deadline of his paper's final edition, Cassidy goes to see casino owner Arno and ends up getting taken captive himself, putting his own life and Ellen's in grave danger.
Arno's brother, laundering money for the criminals, gets a guilty conscience and helps Cassidy and Ellen escape, at the cost of his own life. Cassidy writes the story for the paper, causing such a positive reaction that Cooper decides not to fold it after all.
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