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The Fall Guy(1930)
Status: Released
Date: 1930-06-15
63%
3 Votes
Time: 1h 5m
From the sensational stage hit by George Abbott and James Gleason.
Overview:
Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, his beleaguered wife has to deal with her bizarre, unemployed, wise-cracking brother and various neighbors while keeping house in their Brooklyn tenement.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
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Movie: The Fall Guy
Top 9 Billed Cast
Jack Mulhall
Johnny Quinlan
Mae Clarke
Bertha Quinlan
Ned Sparks
Danny Walsh
Wynne Gibson
Lottie Quinlan
Pat O'Malley
Charles Newton
Thomas E. Jackson
'Nifty' Herman
Tom Kennedy
Detective Burke
Alan Roscoe
Detective Joe Keefe
James Donlan
The Bill Collector
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Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, his beleaguered wife has to deal with her bizarre, unemployed, wise-cracking brother and various neighbors while keeping house in their Brooklyn tenement.
Release Date
1930-06-15
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From the sensational stage hit by George Abbott and James Gleason.
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