The Hole in the Wall Movie

The Hole in the Wall
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Run Time: 73 min
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Released: 1929
Directors: Robert Florey
Genre/Type: Drama
Crime
Producers: Monta Bell
Plot Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Claudette Colbert and Edward G. Robinson both made their talking-picture bows in Paramount's The Hole in the Wall. Based on a play by Fred Jackson, the story is set in motion when Jean Oliver (Colbert), seeking vengeance against the wealthy dowager who had her sent to prison, poses as a fortune teller named Mme. Mystera and charms her way into the dowager's home. It is Jean's plan to kidnap the old woman's granddaughter Marcia (Marcia Kagno) and teach the young girl to be a thief. But this insidious scheme is complicated when The Fox (Edward G. Robinson), a dapper but ruthless gangster, falls in love with Jean. When Jean spurns his advances, The Fox spitefully kidnaps Marcia and ties the poor child to a railway-dock pillar, leaving her at the mercy of the tide. In the process, the Fox is himself drowned, leaving Marcia's fate in the hands of crusading reporter Gordon Grant (David Newell) -- who also is in love with Jean! For years, Edward G. Robinson dismissed Hole in the Wall as a disaster and refused to watch it, until his co-star Claudette Colbert caught the film on TV and convinced Robinson that it wasn't so bad after all.

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Cast

Actors Character Born
Claudette Colbert Jean Oliver Sep 13, 1903 in Paris, France
Edward G. Robinson The Fox Dec 12, 1893 in Bucharest, Romania
Nellie Savage Mme. Mystera
Donald Meek Goofy Jul 14, 1880 in Glasgow, Scotland
Alan Brooks Jim
Louise Closser Hale Mrs. Ramsay Oct 13, 1872 in Chicago, IL
Marcia Kagno Marcia
Helen Crane Mrs. Lyons
David Newell Gordon Grant Jan 23, 1905
Katherine Emmett Mrs. Carslake
Barry Macollum Dogface
George MacQuarrie Inspector
Gamby-Hall Girls Performer

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