The Important Witness (1933)
A freelance stenographer is hired for a job, but when she arrives at the address she was given, she finds that a murder has taken place there--and she is arrested for it.
Top billed cast
Noel FrancisEllen Kelly
Don DillawaySteve Connors
Dorothy BurgessRuth Dana
Noel MadisonGus Miranda
Sarah PaddenDeaf Woman
Franklin PangbornGroom
Robert EllisJack (Duke) Farnham
Harry MyersDrunk
Charles DelaneyJoe Murphy
Paul FixTony
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