Easy Money

Easy Money

70 mins | Crime, Mystery | June 13, 1936

Dan Adams resigns his position as prosecutor on the district attorney's staff and sets out to clean up a gang of fake-accident racketeers. He gets a job with an insurance company, and assures the company president he will get the goods on the gang or die in the attempt. At the company offices, he meets Carol Carter and she, believing he is a shyster (possibly redundant) lawyer in the employ of the racketeers gives him as little help as possible. Dan visits his brother Eddie, who is mixed up with the gang and tries to make him break away. Eddie is belligerent but finally, because of the pressure brought by Dan and his wife Tonia, agrees to go straight. The gang, led by "Duke" Trotti, fears he will squeal and they kill him, plus they make his death look like an accident and plan to collect on it. Dan is closing in on the gang when Carol, who is now his assistant, comes up with some conclusive evidence, but "Duke" has plans to get rid of her before she can give the information to Dan.

Easy Money

70 mins | Crime, Mystery | June 13, 1936

Easy Money
Dan Adams resigns his position as prosecutor on the district attorney's staff and sets out to clean up a gang of fake-accident racketeers. He gets a job with an insurance company, and assures the company president he will get the goods on the gang or die in the attempt. At the company offices, he meets Carol Carter and she, believing he is a shyster (possibly redundant) lawyer in the employ of the racketeers gives him as little help as possible. Dan visits his brother Eddie, who is mixed up with the gang and tries to make him break away. Eddie is belligerent but finally, because of the pressure brought by Dan and his wife Tonia, agrees to go straight. The gang, led by "Duke" Trotti, fears he will squeal and they kill him, plus they make his death look like an accident and plan to collect on it. Dan is closing in on the gang when Carol, who is now his assistant, comes up with some conclusive evidence, but "Duke" has plans to get rid of her before she can give the information to Dan.
IMDb rating 6.0
Producers Invincible Pictures Corp.
Original title Easy Money
Directors Phil Rosen
Writers Paul Perez, Ewart Adamson, Arthur T. Horman

Cast

Onslow Stevens

as Dan Adams

Kay Linaker

as Carol Carter

Noel Madison

as 'Duke' Trotti

Allen Vincent

as Edward Adams, alias Edward Clayton

Robert Homans

as Det. Sam Belden

Wallis Clark

as Richard M. Curtis

John Dilson

as Lawyer Rusick

Monte Vandergrift

as Moxie Malley, henchman

John Kelly

as Henchman Carney

Allan Wood

as Henchman Chick

Lafe McKee

as Henchman "Pop"

Selmer Jackson

as D. A. Allen Harrison

Robert Graves

as Mr. Silweg

Henry Hebert

as Mr. Johnson

Betty Mack

as Law Office Receptionist

Robert Frazer

as Lab Man

Barbara Bedford

as Mrs. Ada Turner

Dickie Walters

as Johnny Turner