Crack-Up

Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?

Cast

Pat O'Brien

as George Steele

Claire Trevor

as Terry Cordell

Herbert Marshall

as Traybin

Ray Collins

as Dr. Lowell

Wallace Ford

as Lt. Cochrane

Dean Harens

as Reynolds

Damian O'Flynn

as Museum Curator Stevenson

Erskine Sanford

as Museum Director Barton

Mary Ware

as Mary

Alex Akimoff

as Man (Uncredited)

Reviews

CinemaSerf

If only Irving Reis had cast his net a bit wider when casting his leading man, here - then we could have ended up with a quality, sophisticated crime drama. Sadly, he didn't and we are stuck with a really quite dreary performance from Pat O'Brien as "George", an art critic who finds himself caught u...

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