Larceny on the Air (1937)
Directed by Irving Pichel
Genres - Drama, Crime |
Sub-Genres - Melodrama, Crime Drama |
Release Date - Jan 11, 1937 (USA - Unknown), Jan 11, 1937 (USA) |
Run Time - 67 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Larceny on the Air is a Republic B-plus picture "drawn from today's headlines." In this instance, the news event pounced upon was the mid-1930s Federal crackdown on patent-medicine quacks. Robert Livingston stars as a doctor who takes to the radio airwaves to campaign against cure-all charlatans. Livingston's mission is compromised when he falls in love with Grace Bradley, daughter of the medicine-racket ringleader. Somehow Larceny on the Air found the time to accommodate a musical number, "Sittin' on the Moon" (from the 1936 Republic picture of the same name).
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campaign, doctor, medicine, quack (physician), radio, ringleader, daughter
