Below the Deadline

Below the Deadline

57 mins | Drama, Crime | Jan. 2, 1929

Beau Nash is a "gentleman crook" who headquarters his gang of jewel thieves in a run-down boardinghouse. When one of his gang, Mike, gets arrested, his sister Claire--aka "Lady Byron"--swears to get revenge. The gang frames Donald, the best friend of the detective who arrested Mike, for a jewelry store robbery. The detective gives Donald--and his new love, Claire--a short time to find the thieves and clear his name before he takes him in.

Below the Deadline

57 mins | Drama, Crime | Jan. 2, 1929

Below the Deadline
Beau Nash is a "gentleman crook" who headquarters his gang of jewel thieves in a run-down boardinghouse. When one of his gang, Mike, gets arrested, his sister Claire--aka "Lady Byron"--swears to get revenge. The gang frames Donald, the best friend of the detective who arrested Mike, for a jewelry store robbery. The detective gives Donald--and his new love, Claire--a short time to find the thieves and clear his name before he takes him in.
Producers Chesterfield Motion Pictures Corporation
Original title Below the Deadline
Directors Bernard McEveety, J.P. McGowan
Writers Lee Authmar, Arthur Hoerl

Cast

Frank Leigh

as Beau Nash

Barbara Worth

as Claire Byron

Arthur Rankin

as Jimmy Byron

Walter Merrill

as Donald Cornwall

J.P. McGowan

as Taggart

Mike Donlin

as Sandy

Virginia Sale

as Mother Biblow

Lou Gory

as Stella

Bill Patton

as Johnston

Tiny Ward

as Tubby

Charles H. Hickman

as Police Captain

Fred Walton

as Festenberg