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24 Hours is a american film of genre Drama directed by Marion Gering released in USA on 3 october 1931 with Clive Brook
24 Hours (1931)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 3 october 1931
Directed by Marion Gering
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Rating61%
24 Hours is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film starring Clive Brook, Kay Francis, and Miriam Hopkins. It was based on the novel Twenty-Four Hours by Louis Bromfield and the play Shattered Glass by Will D. Lengle and Lew Levenson. An alcoholic married man is accused of murdering the woman with whom he has been carrying on an affair.
Actors
Clive Brook
(James Morton Towner)
Kay Francis
(Fanny Towner)
Miriam Hopkins
(Rosie Dugan)
Adrienne Ames
(Ruby Wintringham)
Regis Toomey
(Tony Bruzzi)
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