Death from a Distance

Death from a Distance
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Directed byFrank R. Strayer
Written byJohn W. Krafft
Produced byMaury M. Cohen
StarringRussell Hopton
Lola Lane
George F. Marion
CinematographyM. A. Anderson
Edited byRoland D. Reed
Music bySidney Cutner
Production
company
Invincible Pictures
Distributed byChesterfield Pictures
Release date
  • September 17, 1935 (1935-09-17)
Running time
68 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Death from a Distance is a 1935 American mystery film starring Russell Hopton and Lola Lane. Lane plays a young reporter who eventually combines forces with a detective played by Hopton to solve a murder-mystery.[1] Directed by Frank R. Strayer, the film was produced by Maury M. Cohen.[2] The film's sets were designed by the art director Edward C. Jewell.

It was the first feature film broadcast on U.S. commercial television, on July 2, 1941, during the first week of official commercial broadcasts on NBC's New York television station WNBT-TV.

Plot summary

While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of the audience members is found dead. A tough detective and a brassy female reporter lock horns as they both try to break the case.

Cast

References

  1. ^ "Death From a Distance". Evening Express. Liverpool, England. September 30, 1935. Retrieved March 15, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ The Film Daily Year Book of Motion Pictures 1936. New York: The Film Daily. 1936. p. 183.
  3. ^ Hanson, Patricia King; Gevinson, Alan (1993). The American film institute catalog of motion pictures produced in the United States. Berkeley (Calif.) Los Angeles (Calif.) Oxford: University of California Press. p. 345. ISBN 0520079086.
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