Love Bound
1932 film
- March 1, 1932 (1932-03-01)
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Love Bound is a 1932 American Pre-Code mystery film directed by Robert F. Hill and starring Jack Mulhall, Natalie Moorhead, Clara Kimball Young.[1] It is a second feature produced by the Poverty Row studio Peerless Pictures. The film is also known as Murder on the High Seas, the alternative title it was later reissued under.
Plot
Gold-digging actress Verna Wilson demands money from a financial theatrical backer by falsely threatening to tell his wife that their relationship is more than professional. After he pays up his son Dick discovers that Verna is part of a gang of blackmailers and is now fleeing the country on an ocean liner. He boards the ship along with his chauffeur and the two pose as wealthy playboys in order that Verna will attempt to play the same trick on them. Dick and Verna instead fall in love, but things are complicated by the presence of her associates on board the ship, leading to a murder.
Cast
- Jack Mulhall as Richard "Dick" Randolph, posing as Dick Rowland
- Natalie Moorhead as Verna Wilson, alias Vera Wendall
- Clara Kimball Young as Mrs. Jane Randolph
- Edmund Breese as J.B. "Lucky" Morrison
- Tom Ricketts as The Baron
- Alice Day as Claudia Elliott
- William V. Mong as Verna's Crooked Lawyer
- Montagu Love as John Randolph
- Richard Alexander as Larry, the Randolph Chauffeur, posing as J. B. "Lucky" Morrison
- Roy D'Arcy as Juan de Leon
- Lynton Brent as Jimmy Wilson
- Sidney Bracey as Spriggins
- Gordon De Main as Flynn - Private Detective
- Robert F. Hill as Ship Passenger
- Olaf Hytten as Ship Passenger
- William H. O'Brien as Butler
References
- ^ Pitts p.259
Bibliography
- Pitts, Michael R. Poverty Row Studios, 1929–1940: An Illustrated History of 55 Independent Film Companies, with a Filmography for Each. McFarland & Company, 2005.
External links
- Love Bound at IMDb
- Murder on the High Seas is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
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Films directed by Robert F. Hill
- The Great Radium Mystery (1919)
- The Flaming Disc (1920)
- The Adventures of Tarzan (1921)
- The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1922)
- The Radio King (1922)
- Around the World in 18 Days (1923)
- The Social Buccaneer (1923)
- The Phantom Fortune (1923)
- His Mystery Girl (1923)
- Shadows of the North (1923)
- Crooked Alley (1923)
- Young Ideas (1924)
- Jack O'Clubs (1924)
- The Breathless Moment (1924)
- Dark Stairways (1924)
- Idaho (1925)
- Wild West (1925)
- The Bar C Mystery (1926)
- The Return of the Riddle Rider (1927)
- Blake of Scotland Yard (1927)
- Haunted Island (1928)
- Life's Mockery (1928)
- A Million for Love (1928)
- Silks and Saddles (1929)
- Melody Lane (1929)
- Heroes of the Flames (1931)
- Sundown Trail (1931)
- The Spell of the Circus (1931)
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- The Cheyenne Kid (1933)
- Tarzan the Fearless (1933)
- A Demon for Trouble (1934)
- Frontier Days (1934)
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- Queen of the Jungle (1935)
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- Put on the Spot (1936)
- Silks and Saddles (1936)
- Two Minutes to Play (1936)
- Shadow of Chinatown (1936)
- Prison Shadows (1936)
- West of Nevada (1936)
- Men of the Plains (1936)
- Rip Roarin' Buckaroo (1936)
- Kelly of the Secret Service (1936)
- The Phantom of the Range (1936)
- Idaho Kid (1936)
- Too Much Beef (1936)
- Taming the Wild (1936)
- Million Dollar Racket (1937)
- The Roaming Cowboy (1937)
- Cheyenne Rides Again (1937)
- Blake of Scotland Yard (1937)
- Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938)
- The Painted Trail (1938)
- Whirlwind Horseman (1938)
- Man's Country (1938)
- Wild Horse Canyon (1938)
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- Overland Mail (1939)
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