Below the Deadline (1936)

Police Officer Terry Mulvaney (Russel Hopton) is in love with Molly Fitzgerald (Cecila Parker). However, his unknown rival is Flash Ackroyd (Theodore von Eltz), firecode incompliant nightclub owner, socialite, and master jewel thief. Molly works as secretary to Abrams (John St. Polis), of Abrams and Co. diamond brokers, and Flash uses a legal ruse to get a copy of her handwriting for his friend Spike (Jack Gardner). With a fake letter sent to Terry and some good acting, Ackroyd and has henchmen hold up Abrams and frame Terry and Molly for it. Terry escapes on a train out of town which goes ove

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