Extortion
Cast & Crew
Lambert Hillyer
Scott Colton
Mary Russell
Thurston Hall
Arthur Loft
Gene Morgan
Film Details
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Synopsis
On the campus of Brill College, a foolish student, Philo, suspects Professor Tisdelle is about to commit a murder. Philo informs the editor of the student newspaper, Larry Campbell, whose girl friend, Betty is the professor's daughter, and the two young men arrive at the professor's classroom in time to see him demonstrate the laws of gravity, using two pistols. Later, following the prom, a bookish student, Craig Banning, and his landlady, find proctor Jeffrey Thompson dead in his apartment. Inspector Nat Corrigan suspects Professor Tisdelle when he finds Tisdelle's bonds among the dead man's belongings, and then Philo mentions the professor's guns. The inspector then finds one of the professor's guns in Larry's locker, but the professor's fingerprints have been faked. Professor Tisdelle pulls a gun on Craig and demands that he confess, but Craig jumps into the river and his body is not recovered. At the commencement exercises, under the assumption that Craig has died, the school agrees to give his diploma to his brother, who is actually Craig in disguise. As Craig goes up to accept his diploma, he is recognized, and he runs for an open window, climbing out and down a drainpipe. Craig loses his grip and falls however. Before he dies, Craig confesses that he killed Thompson when Thompson refused to give him any more exam answers.
Director
Lambert Hillyer
Cast
Scott Colton
Mary Russell
Thurston Hall
Arthur Loft
Gene Morgan
Frank C. Wilson
Ann Doran
J. Farrell Macdonald
George Offerman Jr.
Nick Lukats
Roland Got
Albert Van Dekker
Ruth Hilliard
Edward Keane
C. Montague Shaw
Lucille Ward
Bud Jamison
Jim Millican
Bud Geary
George Magrill
Charles Sherlock
Allen Brook
Jane Hamilton
Robert Rouse
John Tyrrell
Eddie Fetherston
Vernon Dent
Bess Flowers
Leona Valde
Crew
Film Details
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Notes
The working title for this film was The Campus Mystery. Exteriors for the film were shot at the campus of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA.
