Money to Loan (1939)

Money to Loan

1939

Crime Drama

Synopsis

The MGM crime reporter introduces Norman Kennedy, District Attorney of a large city, he who talks about the general want for money, and the extraordinary lengths some will go to to get it. The loan sharking business has that want for money on both sides. He tells the story of one such loan shark, Stephen Hanley, who tried to pass his company off as a legitimate loan business, but who charged exorbitant rates, and used extortion and fraud to get out of his customers even more than what they may have owed on paper.

Credits

Director

Joseph M. Newman

Cast

Addison Richards as District Attorney Norman Kennedy

Alan Dinehart as Stephen Hanley

Chuck Hamilton as Policeman in District Attorney's Office

Eddy Chandler as Police Sergeant

Jack Egan as Saxophone Musician

John Butler as Joe Mello

John Dilson as Clarence Z. Dodds, Hanley's Accountant

Lester Dorr as Frank Sidley, Loan Victim