Public Hero Number 1 (1935)
Public Hero #1
FACTS!...NEVER BEFORE TOLD!
89 min
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
- Release date
- May 31, 1935
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Lionel Barrymore as Doctor Josiah Glass
- Jean Arthur as Maria Theresa O'Reilly
- Chester Morris as Jeff Crane
- Joseph Calleia as Sonny Black
- Paul Kelly as James Duff
- Lewis Stone as Prison Warden
- Paul Hurst as Rufe Parker
- George E. Stone as Butch
- Sam Baker as Mose Jones
- William Bailey as Federal Agent
Crew
- J. Walter Ruben · Director
- Wells Root · Writer
- J. Walter Ruben · Writer
- Lucien Hubbard · Producer
- Edward Ward · Composer
- Gregg Toland · Cinematographer
- Frank Sullivan · Editor