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About
Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.
Theatrical
Feb 22, 1935
Director
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Studio
Columbia Pictures
Cast
Full credits →E
Edward G. Robinson
Arthur Ferguson 'Jonesy' Jones / 'Killer' Mannion
J
Jean Arthur
Wilhelmina 'Bill' Clark
A
Arthur Hohl
Det. Sgt. Michael F. Boyle
J
James Donlan
Detective Sergeant Patrick J. Howe
A
Arthur Byron
Spencer
W
Wallace Ford
Healy
D
Donald Meek
Hoyt
E
Etienne Girardot
Seaver
E
Edward Brophy
'Slugs' Martin
P
Paul Harvey
'J.G.' Carpenter
J
J. Farrell MacDonald
Prison Warden (uncredited)
R
Ralph Remley
Sam Dixon
J
Joe Sawyer
Mannion's Thug (uncredited)
L
Lucille Ball
Bank Employee (uncredited)
B
Bess Flowers
Miss Gower (uncredited)
R
Robert Stanley
Reporter (uncredited)
