Upperworld

Name: Upperworld
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Released: 1934-01-01

1934 film by Roy Del Ruth

FilmfilmQ12130753

Also known as Upper World

Released: 1934
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Screenwriter: Ben Hecht
Producer: Hal B. Wallis
Cast: Warren William
, Mary Astor
, Ginger Rogers
, Theodore Newton
Runtime: 73 min
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Genre: drama film
, crime film
Country of origin: United States

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Upperworld is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Warren William as a wealthy married railroad tycoon whose friendship with a showgirl, played by Ginger Rogers, leads to blackmail and murder. Upperworld is one of the last films released before the strict enforcement of the Hollywood Production Code by Joseph I. Breen, which began on July 1, 1934.

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Movement: Pre-Code Hollywood
Director of photography: Tony Gaudio
Title: Upper World
Color: black-and-white
Film editor: Owen Marks

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