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Alibi is a american film of genre Drama directed by Roland West released in USA on 20 april 1929 with Chester Morris
Alibi (1929)
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Add to a movie listAlibi is a 1929 American crime film directed by Roland West. The screenplay was written by West and C. Gardner Sullivan, who adapted the 1927 Broadway stage play, Nightstick, written by Elaine Sterne Carrington, J.C. Nugent, Elliott Nugent and John Wray.
Alternate titles for the film include The Perfect Alibi and Nightstick.
The movie is a crime melodrama starring Chester Morris, Harry Stubbs, Mae Busch and Eleanore Griffith. Director West experimented a great deal with sound, music, and camera angles.
^ Nightstick at the Internet Broadway Database
Actors
Chester Morris
(Chick Williams)
Mae Busch
(Daisy Thomas)
Harry Stubbs
(Buck Bachman)
Regis Toomey
(Danny McGann)
Purnell Pratt
(Sgt. Pete Manning)
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