By Richard Harland Smith
Framed
Brief Synopsis
A nightclub hostess seeks revenge against a police inspector, yet falls in love with his son.
Cast & Crew
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George Archainbaud
Director
Evelyn Brent
Rose Manning
Regis Toomey
Jimmy McArthur [Carter]
Ralf Harolde
Chuck Gaines
Maurice Black
Bing Murdock
Robert E. O'connor
Sergeant Schultze
Film Details
Genre
Adventure
Action
Crime
Release Date
Mar
16,
1930
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
RKO Productions
Country
United States
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 2m
Sound
Mono (RCA Photophone System)
Color
Black and White
Film Length
6,138ft
(7 reels)
Synopsis
Rose Manning swears revenge for the unjust slaying of her father by Inspector McArthur. Five years later, as a nightclub hostess, she is sought by Chuck Gaines, secretly a bootlegger, but she centers her attentions on young Jimmy Carter, who, she learns, is the son of McArthur. Chuck hears of Jimmy's desire to marry Rose and orders Bing to put him on the spot. Meanwhile, Jimmy's father, hoping to put an end to the boy's folly, raids the club. Rose tries to warn Jimmy but is herself attacked by the jealous Chuck, who is shot and killed by Jimmy. Rose shields Jimmy, laying the slaying of Chuck to Bing Murdock; and McArthur, realizing that her love is genuine, brings the couple together.
Director
George Archainbaud
Director
Cast
Evelyn Brent
Rose Manning
Regis Toomey
Jimmy McArthur [Carter]
Ralf Harolde
Chuck Gaines
Maurice Black
Bing Murdock
Robert E. O'connor
Sergeant Schultze
Eddie Kane
Headwaiter
Crew
Film Details
Genre
Adventure
Action
Crime
Release Date
Mar
16,
1930
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
RKO Productions
Country
United States
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 2m
Sound
Mono (RCA Photophone System)
Color
Black and White
Film Length
6,138ft
(7 reels)
Articles
Framed (1930)
This early RKO Radio Pictures sound film was an attempt to cash in on the vogue for underworld tales prior to the sea change in the subgenre post-Public Enemy and Little Caesar (both 1931). Evelyn Brent, who had played a gangster's moll in Josef von Sternberg's Underworld (1927), takes top billing here as the embittered daughter of a slain racketeer who plots revenge against the copper responsible. More melodrama than gangster picture, Framed (1930) charts the softening of Brent's resolve as she falls for the cop's son (Regis Toomey) and incurs the wrath of her bootlegger paramour (Ralf Harolde). Though she had weathered the transition from silent to talking films, Brent was nearing the end of her popularity with moviegoers and the ensuing years would see her popping up in such programmers as Jungle Jim (1937) and Mr. Wong, Detective (1938); one of her last film roles was as an icy, one-armed Satanist in the Val Lewton produced The Seventh Victim (1943). Framed was photographed by Leo Tover, whose later triumphs include The Snake Pit (1948), The Heiress (1949), and The Day the Earth Stood Still (1950). Caveat emptor: the William Holden who appears as Toomey's policeman father is not, of course, the William Holden of Sunset Blvd. (1950) and The Wild Bunch (who was born William Beedle, Jr.) but rather another American actor whose death in 1932 left that particular stage name up for grabs.
By Richard Harland Smith
By Richard Harland Smith
Framed (1930)
This early RKO Radio Pictures sound film was an attempt to cash in on the vogue for underworld tales prior to the sea change in the subgenre post-Public Enemy and Little Caesar (both 1931). Evelyn Brent, who had played a gangster's moll in Josef von Sternberg's Underworld (1927), takes top billing here as the embittered daughter of a slain racketeer who plots revenge against the copper responsible. More melodrama than gangster picture, Framed (1930) charts the softening of Brent's resolve as she falls for the cop's son (Regis Toomey) and incurs the wrath of her bootlegger paramour (Ralf Harolde). Though she had weathered the transition from silent to talking films, Brent was nearing the end of her popularity with moviegoers and the ensuing years would see her popping up in such programmers as Jungle Jim (1937) and Mr. Wong, Detective (1938); one of her last film roles was as an icy, one-armed Satanist in the Val Lewton produced The Seventh Victim (1943). Framed was photographed by Leo Tover, whose later triumphs include The Snake Pit (1948), The Heiress (1949), and The Day the Earth Stood Still (1950). Caveat emptor: the William Holden who appears as Toomey's policeman father is not, of course, the William Holden of Sunset Blvd. (1950) and The Wild Bunch (who was born William Beedle, Jr.) but rather another American actor whose death in 1932 left that particular stage name up for grabs.
By Richard Harland Smith
