6,000 Enemies

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6,000 Enemies
US Film Poster
Directed byGeorge B. Seitz
Written byWilmon Menard
Leo L. Stanley
Produced byLucien Hubbard
StarringWalter Pidgeon
Rita Johnson
CinematographyJohn F. Seitz
Edited byConrad A. Nervig
Music byEdward Ward
Distributed byMGM
Release date
  • June 9, 1939 (1939-06-09)
Running time
62 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$204,000[1]
Box office$358,000[1]

6,000 Enemies is a 1939 American drama film starring Walter Pidgeon as a successful District Attorney who is framed on charge of bribery. Although innocent, he is sent to prison where he fights to clear his name.

Plot summary

District attorney Steve Donegan (Walter Pidgeon) an all-too-efficient district attorney who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself.[2]

Cast

Box office

According to MGM records the film earned $233,000 in the US and Canada and $125,000 elsewhere resulting in a profit of $22,000.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  2. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031014/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

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