Heroes in Blue (1939)
1939 · Feature film · 61 min · dir. William Watson
Murder after midnight on deserted streets!
- Drama
- Crime
Synopsis
Gangster Moran gives Joe Murphy several thousand dollars to bet on a horse race, the horse wins and Joe takes off with the money. Moran informs Mike Murphy, Joe's father, that no harm will come to Joe if Mike doesn't interfere with the robbing of stores on his beat. Joe's policeman brother, Terry Murphy, learns of the plot and sets out to free his father and brother of Moran's threats.
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- William Watson
- Writer
- Charles Williams
- Cinematography
- Harry Neumann
- Studio
- Monogram Pictures
- Released
- 1939-11-07
- Running time
- 61 minutes
Cast & crew
William Watson Director
Dick Purcell
Bernadene Hayes
Frank Sheridan
Charles Quigley
Lillian Elliott- Julie Warren
Edward Keane
Paul Fix
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Happy Ending of Course · jimelena · 2005-11-21
Two brothers, one is a cop, the other hangs around with hoods. The father is an ex-cop. The cop son arrests all the hoods, the other son learns his lesson, the father is happy. Typical Monogram Pictures release. Great finish though.
★ · Terrible · Bro Bubba · 2005-11-21
In this movie an inept, unthinking, uncaring, moronic policeman blindly follows the idiotic orders of his commander and ruthlessly goes after his own brother in hopes of gaining a promotion. He uses their sick mother as bait which causes her another "attack". Now his brother is doing 20 yrs. for a crime he didn't commit. Later He charges like a stormtrooper into a situation that required tact and subtlety and gets his dad killed. In the "happy ending" he pins a posthumous medal on his dad's empty uniform. So the moral of the story is that to be a "Hero in Blue" you need to be dumber than dirt…
