Picture Snatcher (Warner Bros.) (1933)

PICTURE SNATCHER with RALPH BELLAMY ALICE WHITE PATRICIA ELLIS ‘ aoa | CAST OF CHARACTERS | f DOVANY non i James Cagney PEE E GOON O38 cn is ARE ee eee Ralph Bellamy PEPE a es Oe a ee ee Patricia Ellis SISO es i a ae Alice White POE Re ei ee ee ee Ralf Harolde ERE re tg ee ee ee eRe Robert Emmett O’Connor GO ee a Oe ee ee Robert Barrat tee UOWMON a ea ee George Pat Collins TOO er io ee eee Tom Wilson OR a ee ee a ee eee Barbara Rogers CRU ee ee ee Rene Whitney Collet 5 SS ee Alice Jans EDU REGS pT eo Se eg ee Jill Dennett Warner Bros. Pictures, Ine. & The Vitaphone Corp. 25% present JAMES CAGNEY 100% in ‘““PICTURE SNATCHER”’ 15% with Ralph Bellamy-——Patricia Ellis 65% Alice White 60% Directed by Lloyd Bacon 20% A Warner Bros. and Vitaphone Picture 40% PRODUCTION STAFF Preenon Oy. ea Be See oa es eee nh ee Lloyd Bacon PeOHEO OUAE SIOPY DY ee ee ee Danny Ahearn EON OU OY ee Allen Rivkin and P. J. Wolfson PROCEED NIE eee So ee a ee ee Sol Polito PU EOP ee ae, eee ee Se Bill Holmes Dialogue Director ............... Bs epee! een en ee Es Wm. Keighley AEE PCC eS ne ee Robt. Haas PEOUNE OY eo ee ee a Orry-Kelly Vitaphone Orchestra Conducted BY .........0c.cc.ccccceccecees Leo F. Forbstein Length... 7128 Ft. Time... 77 Minutes Cut No.5 Cut 380c Mati10c THE STORY Danny Kean, a youthful gang leader, on completing a jail term, decides to go straight, and applies for a job on a tabloid. Danny offers to get a picture of a fireman who has gone insane and taken a shot at one of the staff. Danny gets the picture and a job as photographer and _ picture snatcher, under McLean the city editor. He attracts the attention of Allison, the sob sister of the tabloid, but Danny finding that she is MeLean’s girl, however, and will have nothing to do with her as he plays straight with a pal. Patricia visits the newspaper office with a group of journalistic students and Danny falls in love with her. He visits her at her home and discovers she is the daughter of Casey Nolan, a police lieutenant who had sent Danny to prison. Through McLean, a promotion is obtained for Nolan, who is led to believe that Danny was instrumental in getting it. He decides that Danny should have his chance to go straight, and permits him to see Patricia. Nolan is placed in charge of newspaper men who are invited by the warden of Sing Sing to witness the electrocution of a woman. The tabloid is such a scandalous sheet that no invitation has been issued to any member of its staff. Danny, however, manages to acquire an invitation, and through Nolan gets into the execution chamber. Danny, who has a small camera strapped to his ankle, gets a picture of the woman in the death chair. Nolan discovers what Danny has done and swears to get him dead or alive. McLean hides Danny in Allison’s apartment, she being sent out of the city on a story. Allison sneaks back to her apartment and Danny is trying to get rid of her when McLean walks in. He thinks Danny is double crossing him and they quarrel. Later they meet in a speakeasy and make up. McLean tells Danny he has quit the tabloid, and is unable to get another job because of his drinking. Danny learns that one of the members of his old gang, who had doublecrossed him, has killed two policemen. He decides to trap him and give McLean the scoop. Through the thug’s girl he learns where he is hiding and goes after him. The police follow Danny to the apartment and open fire on the place and finally kill the thug. Nolan is one of the officers who rush into the apartment. Danny explains to the police captain that he came to the apartment under Nolan’s instructions and the latter is given credit for the capture. Danny has taken pictures of the thug and turns them over to McLean. Both get a job on a respectable paper, and then McLean brings together Danny and Patricia. TABLE OF CONTENTS Accessories Advance Biographies Current Exploitation lite Id Radio Dramatization Review Shorts