Emergency Squad (1940)

Emergency Squad

1940

Drama Action Crime

Synopsis

Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies where lives are at stake. Slade Wiley, an unscrupulous tunnel builder, finds that his low bid on the Newford Tunnel project is causing him to lose a lot of money, and has underworld leader Nick Burton set off blasts to frighten the stockholders into selling their shares at a low price so he can buy up the stock. Betty is investigating the deal when Wiley and Burton take her on a "tour trip" to the tunnel.

Credits

Director

Edward Dmytryk

Cast

Anthony Quinn as Nick Buller

Barbara Barondess as Ada Miller

John Marston as Lt. Murdock

John Miljan as Slade Wiley

Joseph Crehan as H. Tyler Joyce, editor

Louise Campbell as Betty Bryant

Richard Denning as Dan Barton

Robert Paige as Chester 'Chesty' Miller