Directed by:
Lloyd BaconCinematography:
Sol PolitoCast:
James Cagney, Ralph Bellamy, Patricia Ellis, Alice White, Robert Barrat, Sterling Holloway, Don Brodie, Vaughn Taylor, George Chandler, Charles King (more)VOD (1)
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Picture Snatcher stars Cagney as Danny Kean, a former gangster who has decided to go straight after a stretch in the big house. Danny has fallen for Patricia (Patricia Ellis), the daughter of the cop who put him away (Robert Emmett O'Connor). Dad isn't convinced that Danny has left his life of crime behind him, and he isn't too impressed with his new career taking pictures for a sleazy tabloid newspaper. Between getting a lurid photo of a fireman in front of a burning building (where his wife and her lover met their fate) and a daring shot of a woman being executed (based an actual incident when a New York Daily News photographer got a photo of Ruth Snyder in the electric chair), Danny's work is selling papers but hardly making Officer O'Connor think his daughter is in good hands (especially since he was in charge of press security for the execution). (official distributor synopsis)
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![Bert Moorhouse](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/217/160217477_338503.jpg)
Bert Moorhouse
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
![Ralf Harolde](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/266/160266252_0bee78.jpg)
Ralf Harolde
USA
Best movies:
Our Relations (1936)
A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
Conquest (1937)
William H. Strauss
USA
Best movies:
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
The Public Enemy (1931)
The Texas Rangers (1936)
![Maurice Black](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/732/160732560_7b291a.jpg)
Maurice Black
USA
Best movies:
Scarface (1932)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
The Crusades (1935)
Robert Emmett O'Connor
USA
Best movies:
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
Easter Parade (1948)
G. Pat Collins
USA
Best movies:
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
White Heat (1949)
Jack Grey
USA
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
After the Thin Man (1936)
Marie Antoinette (1938)
Larry McGrath
USA
Best movies:
White Heat (1949)
Gentleman Jim (1942)
King Kong (1933)
Tom Wilson
USA
Best movies:
The Kid (1921)
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Captain Blood (1935)
Phil Tead
USA
Best movies:
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
The Thin Man (1934)
Renee Whitney
USA
Best movies:
Show Boat (1936)
Footlight Parade (1933)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Matt McHugh
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Holiday (1938)
Freaks (1932)
![Cora Sue Collins](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/707/162707097_4e9efe.jpg)
Cora Sue Collins
USA
Best movies:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
Anna Karenina (1935)
Queen Christina (1933)
Cliff Saum
USA
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Captain Blood (1935)