Tip-Off Girls (1938)
J. Edgar Hoover. The title refers to a group of pretty young women who are ordered by their gangster bosses to pick up tips on incoming merchandise shipments, thereby expediting a sophisticated hijacking operation. The girls are also expected to keep the freight drivers occupied while the crooks go about their business. G-Man Bob Anders (Lloyd Nolan) eventually smashes the racket with the help of decoy Marjorie Rogers (Mary Carlisle). Equipped with a Greek accent this time out, J. Carrol Naish plays the supposedly respectable head of the hijackers, while the rest of the cast is populated with such reliable Paramount stock-company players as Roscoe Karns, Buster Crabbe, Anthony Quinn, Benny Baker, Evelyn Brent, Irving Bacon and Stanley Andrews. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Lloyd Nolan, Mary Carlisle, (more)
- Director(s):
- Louis King
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Synopsis of Tip-Off Girls
Tip-Off Girls is a worthwhile entry in Paramount's "FBI" series, based on the various writings of
J. Edgar Hoover. The title refers to a group of pretty young women who are ordered by their gangster bosses to pick up tips on incoming merchandise shipments, thereby expediting a sophisticated hijacking operation. The girls are also expected to keep the freight drivers occupied while the crooks go about their business. G-Man Bob Anders (Lloyd Nolan) eventually smashes the racket with the help of decoy Marjorie Rogers (Mary Carlisle). Equipped with a Greek accent this time out, J. Carrol Naish plays the supposedly respectable head of the hijackers, while the rest of the cast is populated with such reliable Paramount stock-company players as Roscoe Karns, Buster Crabbe, Anthony Quinn, Benny Baker, Evelyn Brent, Irving Bacon and Stanley Andrews. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Tip-Off Girls
- Lloyd Nolan - Bob Anders
- J. Carrol Naish - Joseph Valkus
- Roscoe Karns - Tom Logan
- Anthony Quinn - Marty
- Barlowe Borland - Blacky
- Jack Pennick
- John Hart
- Philip Warren - Steve
- Archie Twitchell - Hensler
- Ruth Rogers
- Margaret Randall
- Stanley King - Driver
- Vic Demourelle Jr.
- Stanley Price - Louis
- Wade Boteler - Pete
- Joyce Mathews - Tessie
- Frank Austin - Gus
- Mary Carlisle - Marjorie Rogers
- Harvey Stephens - Jason Baardue
- Larry "Buster" Crabbe - Red Deegan
- Ben Baker - Scott
- Richard Allen - Police Lieutenant
- John Patterson - Jim
- Pierre Watkin - George Murkil
- Cheryl Walker - Waitress
- Gertrude Short - "Boots" Milburn
- Harry Templeton
- Laurie Lane
- Barbara Jackson - Nurse
- Dutch Hendrian - Hijacker
- Stanley Andrews - Police Sergeant
- Evelyn Brent - Rena Terry
- Ethan Laidlaw
- Irving Bacon - Sam
- Director(s):
- Louis King
- Writer(s):
- Maxwell Shane, Robert Yost, Stuart Anthony
- Producer(s):
- Edward T. Lowe
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