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Director:

Mervyn LeRoy

Writers:

Louis Weitzenkorn (play)
Byron Morgan (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

26 September 1931 (USA) more

Genre:

Crime | Drama more

Plot:

Editor Hinchecliffe wants to boost circulation for his "New York Gazette" and city editor Randall puts... more | add synopsis

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Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. more

User Comments:

Why did you kill my mother? more (24 total)


Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Edward G. Robinson ... Joseph W. Randall
Marian Marsh ... Jenny Townsend
H.B. Warner ... Michael Townsend
Anthony Bushell ... Phillip Weeks
George E. Stone ... Ziggie Feinstein
Frances Starr ... Nancy (Voorhees) Townsend
Ona Munson ... Kitty Carmody

Boris Karloff ... Rev. T. Vernon Isopod
Aline MacMahon ... Miss Taylor
Oscar Apfel ... Bernard Hinchecliffe
Purnell Pratt ... Robert French
Robert Elliott ... R.J. Brannegan
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Additional Details

Runtime:

89 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Certification:

Australia:G


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

Vitaphone production reels #4931-4940. more

Quotes:

Joseph W. Randall: God gives us heartache and the devil gives us whiskey. more

Movie Connections:

Featured in When the Talkies Were Young (1955) more

Soundtrack:

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3 out of 3 people found the following comment useful.
Why did you kill my mother?, 6 February 2008
8/10
Author: lastliberal from Florida

This Oscar-nominated film (Best Picture) shows the dark side of journalism as a paper delves into the past of a woman (Frances Starr) who was impregnated by her boss and acquitted of his murder.

Edward G. Robinson (Little Caesar) is a newspaper editor that is interested in boosting circulation and is not concerned with the lives he destroys in the process. He goes after Nancy Voorhees (Starr), who is now Nancy (Voorhees) Townsend and is not concerned that she has not told her daughter (the doll-faced Marian Marsh), who is now about to me married, about her past.

Robinson was absolutely brilliant in the role and ably assisted by Boris Karloff and Oscar-nominated actress (Dragon Seed) Aline MacMahon in her first film.

A classic showing the seedy side of journalism.

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