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Emergency Squad (1940)

Emergency Squad (1940)

Action Drama Crime

DEATH-CHEATING...THRILL-CHASING...TROUBLE-SHOOTERS!

Release Date: 1940, January 5
Directors: Edward Dmytryk
Countries: United States of America
Production: Paramount Pictures
Cast: Donald Curtis, John Miljan, Maude Fealy, Sam Ash, Richard Denning, Barbara Barondess, Stanley Blystone, Anthony Quinn, Sonny Bupp, Jack Egan, Darryl Hickman, Jimmie Dundee

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

emergency tunnel stockholder