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I'll Sell My Life

I'll Sell My Life

1941Movie⏱️ 1h 13mApproved
ActionCrimeDramaMystery
5.5
IMDB Rating
63 votes

As Freddie and Lugger, employees of Bovhini, are waiting in the parking lot of the Club Sirocco for Ruth Parmelee, they see a woman accost Ruth and then shoot her and speed away in a car. Bochini, who has loved Ruth, vows revenge....

Director
Elmer Clifton
Writers
Walter Ripperger, George Rosener, Elmer Clifton
Stars
Rose Hobart, Michael Whalen, Stanley Fields
Release Date
September 12, 1941
Language
English
Country
United States
💬 8
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Rose Hobart
Rose Hobart
as Dale Layden (Mary Jones)
Michael Whalen
Michael Whalen
as Mordecai Breen
Stanley Fields
Stanley Fields
as Bochini
Joan Woodbury
Joan Woodbury
as Valencia Duncan
Roscoe Ates
Roscoe Ates
as Happy Hogan
Richard Bond
Richard Bond
as Albert Darnell
Ben Taggart
Ben Taggart
as Police Lt. Hammer
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Robert Regent
as Philip Leyden
Paul Maxey
Paul Maxey
as Grady
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Munro Brown
as Freddie

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1
Sound
Mono
Color
Black and White
Production
Merrick-Alexander Productions

🏷️ Keywords

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🎯 Categories

ActionCrimeDramaMystery

⭐ Featured Review

Excellent Idea For A Story
by boblipton2019-09-22
6/10

"Rose Hobart needs money for an operation for her brother. She feels responsible for his blindness. When an advertisement appears in Michael Whelan's paper, headlined "I'll sell my life", she takes up the offer: to confess to a murder committed by Joan Woodbury, and be hanged for it. She collects enough money for the operation and is promised more, so she asks Whelan, who is also a lawyer, to be her executor. When she's dead, if the money is given to him, to deliver it and destroy the enclosed letter. If not, to deliver the letter. However, the dead woman was gangster S..."

💡 Did You Know?

This film received its earliest documented telecast Saturday 8 July 1944 on New York City's pioneer television station WNBT (Channel 1). In Detroit it first aired Friday 5 November 1948 on freshly launched WJBK (Channel 2), and in Los Angeles Friday 30 December 1949 on KTTV (Channel 11).

📖 Synopsis

As Freddie and Lugger, employees of Bovhini, are waiting in the parking lot of the Club Sirocco for Ruth Parmelee, they see a woman accost Ruth and then shoot her and speed away in a car. Bochini, who has loved Ruth, vows revenge....