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Protection

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Protection — Plot

During the height of Prohibition courageous reporter Chick Slater and determined "sob sister" journalist Myrtle Hines uncover a dangerous bootlegging and extortion ring operating in their city. As they dig into the corruption, they get swept into a web of racketeers, mob violence, and romantic complications. The film explores the power of the press as the journalists risk everything to expose the criminal underworld.

  • Release date
  • May 5, 1929
  • Runtime
  • 62 min
  • Genres
  • Drama, Mystery
  • Director
  • Benjamin Stoloff

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Protection — Cast

Dorothy Burgess photo Dorothy Burgess Myrtle Hines Robert Elliott photo Robert Elliott Wallace Crockett Paul Page photo Paul Page Chick Slater Dorothy Ward photo Dorothy Ward Judy Revis Roy Stewart photo Roy Stewart Ollie Bogardt William H. Tooker photo William H. Tooker Harry Lamson Arthur Hoyt photo Arthur Hoyt Ben Hewlett James Rollans

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