Danger on the Air
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| Directed by | Otis Garrett |
| Produced by | Irving Starr (producer) |
| Written by | Betty Laidlaw (screenplay) and Robert Lively (screenplay) Xantippe (novel Death Catches Up With Mr. Kluck) |
| Starring | See below |
| Cinematography | Stanley Cortez |
| Edited by | Maurice Wright |
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Universal Pictures
Crime Club Productions |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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70 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Danger on the Air is a 1938 American crime film directed by Otis Garrett.
Nan Grey, as Christina "Steenie" MacCorkle, a radio advertising executive, is suspected of murdering her client, Berton Churchill, as Caesar Kluck, a soda magnate.
Loathed by all who met him, or forced to work, with his underhanded business machinations, the victims, and suspects, start piling up. Including thug, Joe Downing, as Gangster Joe Carney; Lee J. Cobb as Tony Lisotti, trying to protect his daughter, Louise Stanley, as Maria Lisotti, from being another notch on Kluck's belt; and, Peter Lind Hayes, as Harry Lake, who is desperate to get on the air, seemingly at any cost.
It's up to radio engineer Donald Woods, as Benjamin Franklin Butts, and "Steenie's" brother, Frank Milan, as Alexander MacCorkle, to try to clear her, before the real murderer gets rid of another victim; unless, of course, it is one of them. Time is running out.
The novel contains footnotes, which are intended to be both funny and informative, as well as further commentary on the nature and philosophy of radio and broadcasting, than there is time for the movie to encompass. The novel's author Xanthippe, was the pseudonym of Edith Meiser who wrote and produced extensively for radio. She is particularly known for her work on radio with the Sherlock Holmes mysteries.
In the late 1930s, Universal Pictures made a deal with Doubleday to use The Crime Club imprint for a series of 11 Crime Club mystery films. These films were released from 1937 to 1939, starting with The Westlake Case, as B movies. This was the fourth in the series.
Danger on the Air was based on The Crime Club novel Death Catches Up with Mr. Kluck, by Xantippe (Garden City, NY, 1935).
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