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The Murder Man
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The Murder Man is a 1935 film directed and co-written by Tim Whelan.Two slimy, corrupt investment brokers, Halford and Mander, are having a falling out. Halford is upset with Mander, who has acquired some government bonds illicitly; this threatens to bring federal law enforcement on them. Halford also takes a desperate phone call from an ex-girlfriend whom he dumped, but not before he stole all her money. The woman, at the end of her rope, jumps off a boat and drowns in the bay.All this skulduggery gets Halford murdered. Enter Steve Grey (Spencer Tracy), a newspaper reporter whose reporting and writing skills are only equaled by the prodigious amount of alcohol he drinks. Grey basically leads the investigation by himself, uncovering for the police that Halford was shot from a sidewalk shooting gallery, and that Mander was at that shooting gallery, and that Halford had a $200,000 insurance policy payable to Mander. Mander is convicted of murder and sentenced to death—but there's more to the story.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })First film of Spencer Tracy's 20-year career at MGM. A young MGM contract player named James Stewart plays "Shorty", another reporter at Steve's paper. It was Stewart's feature film debut (his actual film debut was the year before in a comedy short called Art Trouble). | |
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Driven to Suicide: The woman who calls Halford at the beginning, who got dumped and lost all her money, drowns herself in the bay. | |
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The Alcoholic | |
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The Alcoholic: Steve drinks constantly; in his first appearance he's found passed-out in a carousel. It's eventually revealed that the loss of his wife is what drove him to drink. | |
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Foreshadowing: It's not hard to figure out that Steve did it. Over the course of the movie we find out that Steve's father lost his money in the Ponzi scheme, and that the woman who drowned herself was Steve's ex-wife who left him for Halford. | |
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Extra! Extra! Read All About It! | |
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Extra! Extra! Read All About It!: A series of newspaper boys hawking extras is used as a Time Passes Montage to narrate the passing of the trial, the conviction, and Mander's sentence to death. | |
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