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Whipsaw (1935)

Whipsaw poster
Directed by
Sam Wood
Genre
crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 22m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 16 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A government agent poses as a criminal to get close to a woman. He travels with her across the country, hoping she will lead him to her gang of jewel thieves.

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What happens

Whipsaw is a 1935 American crime drama film directed by Sam Wood and starring Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy. Written by Howard Emmett Rogers, based on a story by James Edward Grant, the film is about a government agent working undercover traveling across the country with an unsuspecting woman, hoping she will lead him to her gang of jewel thieves. The film was produced by Harry Rapf for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and was released on December 18, 1935, in the United States. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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