Anything for a Thrill
Cast & Crew
Les Goodwins
Frankie Darro
Kane Richmond
June Johnson
Ann Evers
Johnstone White
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Don Mallory wants to quit college and work as a newsreel cameraman like his older brother Cliff, but Cliff won't allow it. When Don's friend Jean, a waitress, says that she also want to be a "newsreelman," Don accuses her of always wanting to do what somebody else does. Don and Jean go with Cliff to the airport to get shots of heiress Betty Kelly. Betty has never been photographed, and masquerading as the pilot, she eludes them. Cliff's boss Collins is furious, and he orders Cliff to go to the Kelly mansion and get her on film or else not to return. Meanwhile, Burke, a conman who, by impersonating an earl, has become Betty's fiancé, orders his cohorts to plan a heist to get $10,000 to keep Betty unsuspicious until they marry and he can blackmail her for a divorce. Without Cliff's knowledge, but with Jean's help, Don sneaks onto the Kelly estate. Cliff, impersonating a French portrait photographer, arrives to photograph Betty's father, Boss Kelly, and although Betty discovers Cliff's ruse, Don's pictures make headlines when they are shown in theaters. Betty threatens to sue Collins unless he sells her 51% of the newsreel company, and after Collins agrees, she sends Cliff to film a baby parade to humiliate him. Meanwhile, Don films Burke's gang escaping after a bank robbery, and when he projects the film, Cliff recognizes Burke as Betty's fiancé. After Cliff carries Betty into the projection room and forces her to watch by pulling her hair, Burke and his gang arrive with guns, but following a fight, Don and Cliff subdue them on the roof. Cliff proposes to Betty, and Jean, imitating them, kisses Don, to his annoyance.
Director
Les Goodwins
Cast
Frankie Darro
Kane Richmond
June Johnson
Ann Evers
Johnstone White
Horace Murphy
Eddie Hearn
Frank Marlowe
Bob Kortman
Chas. Dorety
Chas. Macavoy
Arthur Van Slyke
Ernie Adams
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
The opening credits introduce the film as "Peter B. Kyne's Anything for a Thrill." A review lists the character played by Frankie Darro as "Dan Mallory," while he is called "Don Mallory" in dialogue in the film. Although onscreen credits for both this film and the 1936 Conn production Born to Fight (see below) state that they are "Suggested by the story 'To Him Who Dares,'" the two films bear no resemblance in plot.
