Murder Pays BIG in the Policy Racket!
An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.
Richard Dix Lucille Ball Allan Lane Donald MacBride Cy Kendall John Arledge Granville Bates Bradley Page Dorothy Lee Addison Richards Murray Alper John Gallaudet Joe De Stefani George Davis Eleanor Hansen Greta Meyer Jack Rice Kay Sutton Anthony Warde Stanley Blystone Richard Clarke Ray Turner Edmund Cobb Dorothy Lovett Jack O'Shea Emory Parnell Lee Van Atta Bruce Sidney Frank Faylen Mike Lally Blue Washington Edgar Dearing
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