When G-Men Step In
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Cast & Crew
C. C. Coleman Jr.
Don Terry
Jacqueline Wells
Robert Paige
Gene Morgan
Paul Fix
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Racketeer Frederick Garth poses as a business research expert and makes fake telephone solicitations, the money from which he uses to send his brother Bruce through law school. Intent on hiring Bruce to work for him once his degree is conferred, Fred is disappointed when Bruce decides to work as an investigator for the Department of Justice instead and begins cracking down on racketeering. Garth and Bruce are both in love with Marjory Drake, a socialite who introduces Garth to other social leaders, and who is unaware that Garth is a racketeer. Meanwhile, Bruce and another investigator, Neale, close in on the racket by impersonating telephone company employees, and soon trace the illegal activity to Garth's office building. Although Garth quickly moves out of the building, the G-men eventually track one of his operations at a new location and it is raided. Garth allows the raid on the office to take place so that investigators will think that they have ended his operation, and offers to pay all those taken to jail fifty dollars a day to keep quiet. When Bruce suspects that Garth is also behind a lottery ticket racket, he investigates further and searches his brother's printing shop, where he finds proof to confirm his suspicions. Later, Garth's lieutenant, Clip, convinces the other racketeers that Garth is working with his brother to further his brother's career and is about to double-cross them and leave the country with Marjory and their money. To prevent this, the gang abducts Marjory and plans to hold her hostage until Garth surrenders the money. Bruce, meanwhile, unable to bring himself to arrest his brother, tells him to flee the country with Marjory before he has the other racketeers arrested. Bruce also tells Garth that he will resign from the force after he protects him, but Garth refuses to allow that to happen and knocks Bruce out to make it look as if he resisted arrest. When Bruce regains consciousness, he learns that Garth has gone to rescue Marjory, and sends the authorities to the printing plant to capture the gangsters. No sooner does Bruce arrive at the plant than he is overpowered by the gang and placed beside Garth and Marjory, who are being prepared for execution. After Garth is killed trying to effect an escape, G-men raid the plant and capture the racketeers. Finally, Bruce and Marjory look forward to a future together.
Director
C. C. Coleman Jr.
Cast
Don Terry
Jacqueline Wells
Robert Paige
Gene Morgan
Paul Fix
Stanley Andrews
Edward Earle
Horace Macmahon
Huey White
Harry C. Bradley
Kathleen Howard
Eddie Fetherston
John Gallaudet
Vernon Dent
John Tyrrell
Leona Valde
Louise Stanley
Jane Hamilton
Beatrice Curtis
Beatrice Blinn
C. Montague Shaw
Walter Soderling
Alphonse Martell
Phil Smalley
Jimmy Hollywood
Matty Roubert
Arthur Stuart Hall
Malcolm Stewart
Nick Vehr
Dick French
Bob Walker
John Campbell
Mike Lally
Bob Evans
Rex Moore
George Hickman
Don Brodie
Russell Heustis
Bert Moorhouse
Joe Palma
Walter Anthony Merrill
Stanley Mack
Al Rhein
Neal Burns
Ed Randolph
William Lally
J. L. Palmer
Joe Murphy
Kit Guard
George Hoey
Cy Schindell
Earl Bunn
Sammy Blum
Harry Semels
Eleanor Vandeveer
Lillian West
Florence Wix
Catalina Baker
Georgia Cooper
Helen Dixon
Crew
Lionel Banks
Robert Chalmers Bennett
Irving Briskin
Clifford Broughton
Al Clark
George Cooper
Henry Freulich
Stephen Goosson
Arthur T. Horman
Arthur T. Horman
Wallace Macdonald
Grace Neville
Fred Niblo Jr.
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The working title of this film was You Can't Win.
