70,000 Witnesses (1932)
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This "gimmick" murder mystery begins during a crucial college football game. Wally Clark (Johnny Mack Brown), the team's star player, is killed just before making the winning touchdown, as the titular 70,000 witnesses look on. Wally's teammate Buck Buchanan (Phillips Holmes), the younger brother of gambler Slip Buchanan (Lew Cody), had previously refused to drug Wally at Slip's bequest. Even so, when Wally drops dead, the leading suspect is poor Buck. It's up to bibulous reporter Johnny Moran (Charles Ruggles) and Wally's sister Dorothy Clark (Dorothy Jordan) to save Buck before local detective Dan McKenna (David Landau) railroads the boy into the electric chair. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Phillips Holmes, Dorothy Jordan, (more)
- Director(s):
- Ralph Murphy
Synopsis of 70,000 Witnesses
This "gimmick" murder mystery begins during a crucial college football game. Wally Clark (Johnny Mack Brown), the team's star player, is killed just before making the winning touchdown, as the titular 70,000 witnesses look on. Wally's teammate Buck Buchanan (Phillips Holmes), the younger brother of gambler Slip Buchanan (Lew Cody), had previously refused to drug Wally at Slip's bequest. Even so, when Wally drops dead, the leading suspect is poor Buck. It's up to bibulous reporter Johnny Moran (Charles Ruggles) and Wally's sister Dorothy Clark (Dorothy Jordan) to save Buck before local detective Dan McKenna (David Landau) railroads the boy into the electric chair. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of 70,000 Witnesses
- Phillips Holmes - Buck Buchanan
- Charlie Ruggles - Johnny Moran
- John Farrell MacDonald - State Coach
- David Landau - Dan McKenna
- George Rosener - Ortello
- Paul Page - Greenwood
- John David Horsley - Griffith
- Dorothy Jordan - Dorothy Clark
- Johnny Mack Brown - Wally Clark
- Lew Cody - Slip Buchanan
- Ken Thomson - Dr. Collins
- Walter Hiers - Old Grad
- Reed Howes - Southard
- Guinn "Big Boy" Williams - Connors
- Director(s):
- Ralph Murphy
- Writer(s):
- Robert N. Lee, Garrett Elsden Fort, P.J. Wolfson
- Producer(s):
- Charles R. Rogers
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