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Special Agent is a american film of genre Drama directed by William Keighley released in USA on 14 september 1935 with Bette Davis

Special Agent (1935)

Special Agent
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Released in USA 14 september 1935
Length 1h16
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Crime
Rating63% 3.197783.197783.197783.197783.19778

Special Agent is a 1935 American drama film directed by William Keighley and starring Bette Davis. The screenplay by Laird Doyle and Abem Finkel is based on a story by Martin Mooney.

Synopsis

Newspaper reporter Bill Bradford is deputized as a treasury agent by the Internal Revenue Bureau and assigned to find enough evidence to charge gangster Alexander Carston with tax evasion.

Actors

Bette Davis

(Julie Gardner)George Brent

(Bill Bradford)George Reeves
Ricardo Cortez

(Alexander Carston)William Eythe
And :
Jack La Rue
Henry O'Neill
J. Carrol Naish
Joseph Crehan
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