PICTURE SNATCHER

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• Release Year: 1933
• Genre: Crime, Drama
• Plot: Deceit. Theft. Lawlessness. They can land you in the pen. Or they can land you a job in the legit world. James Cagney plays a con fresh out of Sing Sing and putting his criminal skills to work as a sneaky, snaky tabloid photog in the slam-bang Picture Snatcher.; ; Cagney - spontaneous, freewheeling and roughing up guys and dolls alike - brings a million volts of starpower to this pre-Hays Code romp. The file draws from a jolting real-life incident: the secret snapping and subsequent publication of a forbidden photograph showing the execution of a convicted murderess. Every picture tells a story. The story here is the lengths one man will go to get that picture.
• Cast: James Cagney, Ralph Bellamy, Patricia Ellis, Alice White, Ralf Harolde, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Robert Barrat, G. Pat Collins, Arthur Vinton, Tom Wilson, Maurice Black, Stanley Blystone, Don Brodie, Hobart Cavanaugh, George Chandler, Cora Sue Collins, Gino Corrado, George Daly, Jill Dennett, Mike Donlin, Dick Elliott, Jack Grey, Sterling Holloway, John Ince, Selmer Jackson, Alice Jans, Donald Kerr, Milton Kibbee, Charles King, Larry McGrath, Matt McHugh, Bert Moorhouse, Bob Perry, Barbara Rogers, Cliff Saum, Charles Sherlock, Philip Sleeman, William H. Strauss, Vaughn Taylor, Phil Tead, Billy West, Renee Whitney, William Worthington, Lloyd Bacon, Daniel Ahern, Allen Rivkin
• Director: Lloyd Bacon
• Runtime: 1:17
• Company: Warner Bros. Pictures
• Media Format: Movie