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Death from a Distance is a american film of genre Thriller directed by Frank R. Strayer released in USA on 16 september 1935 with Russell Hopton
Death from a Distance (1935)
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Add to a movie listDeath from a Distance is a 1935 American film directed by Frank R. Strayer.
It was the first feature film broadcast on U.S. commercial television, on July 2, 1941, during the first week of official commercial broadcasts on NBC's New York television station WNBT-TV.
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This script must be run from the command lineActors
Russell Hopton
(Det. Lt. Ted Mallory)
Lola Lane
(Kay Palmer)
George F. Marion
(Jim Gray)
Rosemary Lane
Lee Kohlmar
(Prof. Ernst Einfeld)
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