Crime Takes a Holiday
1938 film directed by Lewis D. Collins
- October 5, 1938 (1938-10-05)
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Crime Takes a Holiday is a 1938 American crime film directed by Lewis D. Collins and written by Jefferson Parker, Henry Altimus and Charles Logue. The film stars Jack Holt, Marcia Ralston, Russell Hopton, Douglass Dumbrille, Arthur Hohl, Thomas E. Jackson and John Wray. The film was released on October 5, 1938, by Columbia Pictures.[1][2][3]
Plot
A policeman is murdered and District Attorney Walter Forbes gets an ex-con to take the blame in order for the real culprit to be more at ease. Forbes calls the real killer, but wires to conversation to broadcast over the radio.
Cast
- Jack Holt as Walter Forbes
- Marcia Ralston as Margaret 'Peggy' Stone
- Russell Hopton as Jerry Clayton
- Douglass Dumbrille as J.J. Grant
- Arthur Hohl as Joe Whitehead
- Thomas E. Jackson as Brennan
- John Wray as Howell
- William Pawley as Spike
- Paul Fix as Louie
- Harry Woods as Stoddard
- Joseph Crehan as Gov. Bill Allen
References
External links
- Crime Takes a Holiday at IMDb
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Films directed by Lewis D. Collins
- Under the Southern Cross (1929)
- Young Desire (1930)
- The Law of the Tong (1931)
- Guns for Hire (1932)
- Gun Law (1933)
- Trouble Busters (1933)
- Ship of Wanted Men (1933)
- Skyway (1933)
- Via Pony Express (1933)
- Public Stenographer (1933)
- Sing Sing Nights (1934)
- Ticket to a Crime (1934)
- The Man from Hell (1934)
- The Brand of Hate (1934)
- Manhattan Butterfly (1935)
- Make a Million (1935)
- The Desert Trail (1935)
- The Hoosier Schoolmaster (1935)
- The Spanish Cape Mystery (1935)
- The Leavenworth Case (1936)
- The Return of Jimmy Valentine (1936)
- Doughnuts and Society (1936)
- Down to the Sea (1936)
- Lucky Corrigan (1936)
- Under Suspicion (1937)
- The Mighty Treve (1937)
- The Wildcatter (1937)
- Trapped by G-Men (1937)
- Flight Into Nowhere (1938)
- Reformatory (1938)
- The Strange Case of Dr. Meade (1938)
- Crime Takes a Holiday (1938)
- Making the Headlines (1938)
- Whispering Enemies (1939)
- Fugitive at Large (1939)
- Trapped in the Sky (1939)
- Hidden Power (1939)
- Outside the Three-Mile Limit (1940)
- Passport to Alcatraz (1940)
- Fugitive from a Prison Camp (1940)
- The Great Plane Robbery (1940)
- Borrowed Hero (1941)
- The Great Swindle (1941)
- Danger in the Pacific (1942)
- Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground (1943)
- Raiders of San Joaquin (1943)
- Oklahoma Raiders (1944)
- Trigger Trail (1944)
- Sweethearts of the U.S.A. (1944)
- The Old Texas Trail (1944)
- Danger Woman (1946)
- Killer Dill (1947)
- Heading for Heaven (1947)
- Jungle Goddess (1948)
- The Fighting Redhead (1949)
- Cowboy and the Prizefighter (1949)
- Roll, Thunder, Roll! (1949)
- Ride, Ryder, Ride! (1949)
- Law of the Panhandle (1950)
- Cherokee Uprising (1950)
- Hot Rod (1950)
- Colorado Ambush (1951)
- Abilene Trail (1951)
- Oklahoma Justice (1951)
- Man from Sonora (1951)
- Nevada Badmen (1951)
- Stage to Blue River (1951)
- Canyon Raiders (1951)
- Stagecoach Driver (1951)
- Lawless Cowboys (1951)
- The Longhorn (1951)
- Texas Lawmen (1951)
- Texas City (1952)
- The Gunman (1952)
- Wild Stallion (1952)
- Kansas Territory (1952)
- Fargo (1952)
- Dead Man's Trail (1952)
- Canyon Ambush (1952)
- Waco (1952)
- Montana Incident (1952)
- The Marksman (1953)
- Vigilante Terror (1953)
- Texas Bad Man (1953)
- The Homesteaders (1953)
- Two Guns and a Badge (1954)
