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Crime Takes a Holiday (1938)

Crime Takes a Holiday poster
Directed by
Lewis D. Collins
Genre
crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
59 min
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A gangster goes into hiding and tries to evade the law. Jack Holt plays the lead in this crime story.

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What happens

Crime Takes a Holiday is a 1938 American crime film directed by Lewis D. Collins and written by Jefferson Parker, Henry Altimus and Charles Logue. The film stars Jack Holt, Marcia Ralston, Russell Hopton, Douglass Dumbrille, Arthur Hohl, Thomas E. Jackson and John Wray. The film was released on October 5, 1938, by Columbia Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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