Parachute Jumper
Seventy-five Smackers a Jump- and Most of it Goes to Widows!
Directed by Alfred E. Green
Produced by Warner Bros. Pictures
A pre-Code Depression-era drama about friendship and survival that balances scrappy humor with the moral compromises of hard times.
An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Bill Keller
Bette Davis
Patricia 'Alabama' Brent
Frank McHugh
Toodles Cooper
Claire Dodd
Mrs. Newberry
Leo Carrillo
Kurt Weber
Harold Huber
Steve Donovan
Thomas E. Jackson
Detective Lt. Coffey
Leon Ames
Pilot with Alabama (uncredited)
Reginald Barlow
The Colonel (uncredited)
Stanley Blystone
Cop (uncredited)
Harry C. Bradley
Man in Society for Prohibition Enforcement Office (uncredited)
Ed Brady
Capt. J.C. Mason (uncredited)
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