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Larceny on the Air is a american film of genre Drama directed by Irving Pichel released in USA on 11 january 1937 with Robert Livingston
Larceny on the Air (1937)
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Dr. Lawrence Baxter runs a medical-themed radio show and requently denounces the phony radium-based "medicine" being sold by Ronald Kennedy. After one of his patients his kidnapped by Kennedy's thugs, Baxter teams up with the police, and pretents to join Kennedy's business to gain evidence of criminal activity.Actors
Robert Livingston
(Dr. Lawrence Baxter)
Grace Bradley
(Jean Sterling)
Willard Robertson
(Inspector 'Mac' McDonald)
Pierre Watkin
(Kennedy)
Smiley Burnette
(Jimmy)
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