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Arson Squad

Arson Squad

1945Movie⏱️ 1h 6m
CrimeDrama
⭐ 6.4
IMDB Rating
21 votes

Tom Mitchell is an insurance investigator and Fire Capt. Joe Dugan is chief of the police department's arson troubleshooters. Tom and Joe team up to solve a particularly vicious series of deliberate fires. A man has been killed in...

Director
Lew Landers
Writers
N/A
Stars
Frank Albertson, Robert Armstrong, Grace Albertson
Release Date
September 11, 1945
Language
English
Country
United States
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Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Frank Albertson
Frank Albertson
as Tom Mitchell
Robert Armstrong
Robert Armstrong
as Fire Capt. Joe Dugan
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Grace Albertson
as Judy Mason
Byron Foulger
Byron Foulger
as Amos Baxter
Chester Clute
Chester Clute
as Sam Purdy
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Jerry Jerome
as Mike C. Crandall
Arthur Loft
Arthur Loft
as Cyrus P. Clevenger
Rod Rogers
Rod Rogers
as Nick
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Stewart Garner
as Bill Roberts
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Frank Wayne
as Tracy

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1
Color
Black and White
Production
Alexander-Stern Productions

🏷️ Keywords

arsonfirefirefighterfiremanarsonist

🎯 Categories

CrimeDrama

⭐ Featured Review

A GREAT PICTURE
by mlink-36-9815 β€’ 2018-02-25
9/10

"Frank Albertson was never better. He plays an insurance investigator & with Robert Armstrong as arson detective solve the string of arson for profit crimes. This movie is so rare I am the only person to have seen it! OK the arson gang uses a telephone vibrations to set the fires. They remove valuable stuff and replace it with with junk. Then the valuable stuff is resold so they collect two ways. A wick is set into the phone box so that when called the ringing sets it off. Lew Landers used real fire footage mixed in with skillfully shot low budget effects. A beautifully written drama by whi..."

πŸ’‘ Did You Know?

The film came about when a producer at PRC Pictures saw fire trucks rushing past the studio to help put out a fire at a building down the street. He quickly dispatched a camera crew to the scene to film everything they could, and assigned writers to come up with a story to fit the footage. The film was in theaters several weeks later.

πŸ“– Synopsis

Tom Mitchell is an insurance investigator and Fire Capt. Joe Dugan is chief of the police department's arson troubleshooters. Tom and Joe team up to solve a particularly vicious series of deliberate fires. A man has been killed in...