Danger on the Air

Caesar Kluck, soft-drink magnate, is found dead in the office of a big radio-broadcasting company. Benjamin Franklin Butts, a sound engineer, discovers that Kluck met his death from cyanogen gas, administered in some mysterious fashion. Harry Jones, head of the company, fires Butts for making the public. Kluck has made many enemies and there are numerous suspects, including Christina Steenie MacCorkle, who is in love with Butts; her brother Alexander; radio announcer Dave Chapman; Tony Lisotti, the janitor who had discovered that Kluck was making love to his daughter Maria Kluck s physician, Doctor Leonard sylvester, and Joe Carney, a racketeer who had been doing Kluck s dirty work. Butts pursues his investigation and his only clue is a deflated toy-advertising balloon he has found next to Kluck s body. Later, Butts discovers Tony;s body in a broom closet and, nearby, finds another deflated balloon, a straw and a pin. He then calls all the suspects together..and solves the mystery. Written by Les Adams Danger on the Air is a 1938 American English-language Adventure Crime movie starring Nan Grey, Donald Woods, Jed Prouty, Berton Churchill, William Lundigan, Richard skeets Gallagher and Harry Strang. The movie is inspired from Death Catches Up with Mr. Kluck by Xantippe. Crime Club Productions in association with Inc. were the production houses involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Irving Starr. The movie is directed by Otis Garrett. Universal Pictures Co. acquired the distribution rights for the motion picture. Danger on the Air was released on 1st July 1938. The screenplay for the movie was written by Betty Laidlaw and Robert Lively. Cinematography was done by Stanley Cortez and editing by Maurice Wright
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