| Mister Dynamite | |
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| Directed by | Alan Crosland |
| Screenplay by | Doris Malloy Harry Clork |
| Produced by | E.M. Asher |
| Starring | Edmund Lowe Jean Dixon Victor Varconi Esther Ralston Verna Hillie Minor Watson |
| Cinematography | George Robinson |
| Edited by | Murray Seldeen |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 67 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Mister Dynamite is a 1935 Americanaction film directed byAlan Crosland and written byDoris Malloy andHarry Clork. The film starsEdmund Lowe,Jean Dixon,Victor Varconi,Esther Ralston,Verna Hillie andMinor Watson. The film was released on April 22, 1935, byUniversal Pictures.[1][2][3]
Private detective T.N. Thompson, nicknamed "Dynamite" due to his initials, takes an interest when a man is murdered inSan Francisco leaving a casino.
The dead man, D.H. Matthews, had an argument outside the casino with Jarl Dvorjak, a celebrated pianist who was gambling while his aloof and money-mad wife Charmian was away. Dvorjak's acquaintance with Mona Lewis led him to the casino, which is owned by her father Clark Lewis and closed by the police after the killing.
Mona becomes a suspect, particularly after Dvorjak's business manager Carey Williams is killed as well. When the pianist himself is shot while playing an organ, Thompson puts everything together and reveals to all that Matthews had actually been a son of Dvorjak's from a previous marriage who was conspiring with Charmian to gain his fortune.
According to Layman and Rivett,[4] the script for Mister Dynamite was based on a screen treatment written byDashiell Hammett, commissioned byDarryl Zanuck atWarner Bros. for "another original Sam Spade story," following thefirst film adaption of Hammett'sThe Maltese Falcon. Hammett's commission for that treatment was for "motion picture production...featuring the actor,William Powell." Zanuck rejected the treatment, explaining that "The finished story [had] none of qualifications ofMaltese Falcon, although the same character was in both stories." Rights to the treatment reverted to Hammett, who reworked it, re-titling itOn the Make and renaming the detective character Gene Richmond. After further re-work, and another change of the detective's name (to T. N. Thompson), the treatment was sold toUniversal in 1935, with the script "liberally reworked" by Malloy and Clork.
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