70,000 Witnesses (1932)
1h 11m
Running Time
September 9, 1932Release Date
70,000 Witnesses (1932)
1h 11m
Running Time
September 9, 1932Release Date
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Plot.
College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses, but they player is doped anyway and collapses and dies. A detective has the whole game re-enacted to find important clues.
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Cast & Crew.
Phillips Holmes
Buck Buchan
Dorothy Jordan
Dorothy Clark
Charles Ruggles
Johnny Moran
Johnny Mack Brown
Wally Clark
Lew Cody
Slip Buchanan
Ralph Murphy
Director
David Landau
Dan McKenna
Cortland Fitzsimmons
Writer
J. Farrell MacDonald
State Coach
Garrett Fort
Writer
Kenneth Thomson
Dr. Collins
Robert N. Lee
Writer
Guinn "Big Boy" Williams
Connors
Allen Rivkin
Writer
Paul Page
Greenwood
P.J. Wolfson
Writer
Reed Howes
Southard
George Rosener
Ortello
Walter Hiers
Old Grad
John David Horsley
Griffith (uncredited)
Francis McDonald
Dominic Silvera (uncredited)
Stuart Erwin
Man Talking to Connors (uncredited)
Mary Gordon
Scrubwoman (uncredited)
Jed Prouty
Newspaper Editor (uncredited)
Harry C. Bradley
Train Conductor (uncredited)
Lee Phelps
Detective (uncredited)
Harry Strang
Detective (uncredited)
George Irving
College Official (uncredited)
Bruce Mitchell
University Coach (uncredited)
Fred Kohler Jr.
Football Player (uncredited)
Dave O'Brien
Football Player (uncredited)
Harold Lewis
Original Music Composer
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Wiki.
70,000 Witnesses is a 1932 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Ralph Murphy, written by Garrett Fort, Robert N. Lee, Allen Rivkin and P.J. Wolfson, and starring Phillips Holmes, Dorothy Jordan, Charlie Ruggles, Johnny Mack Brown, J. Farrell MacDonald, Lew Cody and David Landau. It was released on September 9, 1932, by Paramount Pictures. The film's sets were designed by the art director David S. Garber.
In the film, a star player of college football collapses during a game. He dies shortly after, and his death is initially ruled accidental. But a police detective wants to re-enact the football game, in an attempt to find who killed the player.