"If you have ninety minutes and a weird craving for old-school capers, Million Dollar Ransom is worth a look. It’s not going to change your life, but it’s got that specific, snappy rhythm from the 1930s that makes you wonder if people actually talked like that, or if they were all just high on coffee and stage plays. If you hate movies where the whole plot could be solved by just talking to your parents like a normal human, stay far away. My brain started hurting around the thirty-minute mark be..."
To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con help him fake his own kidnaping..
Billy Dooley
Joyce Compton
Edgar Norton
Edward Arnold
Bradley Page
Mary Carlisle
Wini Shaw
Knute Erickson
Phillips Holmes
Richard Cramer
Spencer Charters
Jay C. Flippen
Al Hill
Arthur Hoyt
Sayre Dearing
Maidel Turner
Gordon De Main
Robert Gleckler
Alyce Ardell
Sam Hayes
Marjorie Gateson
Dorothy Christy
Hughey White
Charles Coleman
Andy Devine
Dick Gordon
Jane Darwell
Henry Kolker
Billie Van Every
Pat Flaherty
Damon Runyon, William R. Lipman, Ben Ryan
United States
If you have ninety minutes and a weird craving for old-school capers, Million Dollar Ransom is worth a look. It’s not going to change your life, but it’s got that specific, snappy rhythm from the 1930s that makes you wonder if people actually talked like that, or if they were all just high on coffee and stage plays. I...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Murray Roth
Reggie Morris
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