Million Dollar Ransom

He had himself kidnapped to save the woman he loved!

To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.

1934

1h 10min

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Top Billed Cast

Phillips Holmes
Stan Casserly
Edward Arnold
Vincent Shelton
Mary Carlisle
Francesca Shelton
Wini Shaw
Babe
Andy Devine
Careful
Robert Gleckler
'Doc' Carson
Marjorie Gateson
Elita Casserly
Edgar Norton
Meigs
Bradley Page
Easy
Hughey White
Innocence
Alyce Ardell
Marie (Uncredited)
Spencer Charters
Pop McGarry (Uncredited)
Dorothy Christy
Gwen (Uncredited)
Charles Coleman
Towers (Uncredited)
Joyce Compton
Millie, Hat Check Girl (Uncredited)
Richard Cramer
Gangster Gossip (Uncredited)
Jane Darwell
Ma McGarry (Uncredited)
Gordon De Main
Gambling House Proprietor (Uncredited)
Sayre Dearing
Nightclub Patron (Uncredited)
Billy Dooley
Newspaper Reporter (Uncredited)

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