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The Tip-Off
Also known as Underworld Love in the United Kingdom : [The Tip Off], [The Stool Pigeon]
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Five reels / 4109 feet
Directed by Leigh Jason

Cast: Bill Cody [Jimmy Lamar], George Hackathorne [‘Shrimp’ Riley], Duane Thompson [‘Crystal Annie’], L.J. O’Connor [Captain McHugh], Jack Singleton [the confidence man], Robert Bolder [Duke], Monte Montague [negro], Walter Shumway [the stock salesman]

Universal Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation. / Produced by William Lord Wright. Scenario by Basil Dickey, from a screen story by Basil Dickey. Cinematography by Charles Stumar (Charles J. Stumar). Film editor, Frank Atkinson. Intertitles written by Val Cleveland (Carl Krusada). / © 25 July 1928 (as The Stool Pigeon) by Universal Pictures Corporation [LP25488]. © 15 May 1929 by Universal Pictures Corporation [LP379]. Released 2 June 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released in the United Kingdom as Underworld Love by European Motion Picture Company in 1929. / Silent film.

Drama: Crime.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 1 December 2023.

References: Hirschhorn-Universal p. 65 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb; Website-IMDb.

 
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