Risky Business
Cast & Crew
Arthur Lubin
George Murphy
Dorothea Kent
Eduardo Ciannelli
Leon Ames
El Brendel
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Hollywood radio commentator Dan Clifford, a former reporter, believes that his life is empty of meaning. Dan's chance to make a difference occurs when his old prohibition pal, Hinge Jackson, returns from Europe and Dan learns that he is involved in the kidnapping of Norma Jameson, the daughter of a studio mogul. Insisting on acting as an intermediary between the kidnappers and Norma's father, Dan follows Hinge's instructions and delivers the ransom money to Axel, the radio station janitor. The ransom was just a test to see if Dan could be trusted, however, and rather than winning the release of the girl, Dan is spirited away to meet Philip Decarno, the real mastermind behind the kidnapping and a ruthless gangster who is wanted for murder. Decarno instructs Dan to tell the governor that in exchange for clemency, he will free the girl. When the governor, a friend of Norma's father, refuses the gangster's demands, Dan, to spare the girl's life, informs Decarno that the governor has agreed to his terms. After Norma is freed, Dan tells Decarno that he has been duped, and then shoots the gangster as he is about to draw his gun. After returning to the studio for his nightly show, Dan is broadcasting the story of the kidnapping when he is shot down by Decarno's gun-toting mob. Dan's epitaph reads "one moment is enough for any man."
Director
Arthur Lubin
Cast
George Murphy
Dorothea Kent
Eduardo Ciannelli
Leon Ames
El Brendel
John Wray
Arthur Loft
Frances Robinson
Pierre Watkin
Grant Richards
Charles Trowbridge
Mary Forbes
Richard Tucker
Stanley Hughes
Raymond Parker
Dorothy Arnold
Frederick Burton
Boyd Irwin
C. Montague Shaw
George Davis
Grace Hayle
Mira Mckinney
Gary Breckner
Walter Byron
James Farley
Ben Taggart
James Blaine
Eddie Fetherston
Armand "curly" Wright
Gloria Mackey
Alan Bridge
Ralph Dunn
Charles Mcmurphy
Lane Chandler
Edna Waldron
James Lucas
Carleton Young
Lester Martin
Ben Lewis
Sherry Hall
Miki Morita
Burr Caruth
Bill Cody Jr.
Jess Lee Brooks
John Marston
John M. Sullivan
Allan Cavan
Peter Lynn
Anthony Warde
Sonny Bupp
Crew
Bernard B. Brown
Charles H. Clarke
Stanley Cortez
Fred Frank
R. A. Gausman
Charles Grayson
Burt Kelly
William Anthony Mcguire
Jack Otterson
Charles Previn
Robert Pritchard
George Thomas Jr.
Vera West
Maurice Wright
Film Details
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Notes
The above film credits and plot summary are based on a cutting continuity included in the studio records. Although the Call Bureau Cast Service and Variety review list El Brendel's character as "Lucius," the continuity lists his name as "Axel." The Call Bureau also lists Eduardo Cianelli's character as "O'Dell" rather than "Decarno." The 1932 Universal film Okay America was based on the same William Anthony McGuire story .
