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House Across the Bay (1940)

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Producer Walter Wanger's House Across the Bay serves as an excellent showcase for Wanger's then-wife Joan Bennett. She is cast as nightclub singer Brenda Bentley, the wife of high-rolling gambler Steve Lawrett (George Raft). When Steve is railroaded into Alcatraz by duplicitous attorney Slant Kolma (Lloyd Nolan), Brenda promises to remain faithful to her husband during his incarceration, even going so far as to purchase an apartment "across the bay" from the island prison so that she can be near

Unrated, 1 hr. 28 min.

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Directed By: Archie Mayo

Written By: Kathryn Scola

Cast

George Raft
Steve Larwitt
Joan Bennett
Brenda Lucky Bentley
Lloyd Nolan
Slant Kolma
Gladys George
Mary Bogale
Walter Pidgeon
Tim Nolan
June Knight
Babe Davis
Peggy Shannon
Alice
Edward Fielding
Federal Judge
Miki Morita
Tim's Japanese House Bo...
Sam Ash
Broker
Herbert Ashley
Man in Park
John Bohn
Reporter
Virginia Brissac
Landlady
Frank Bruno
Jerry the Henchman
Peter Camlin
French Pilot
Martin Cichy
Marcelle Corday
French Maid
James Craig
Joseph Crehan
Jean Del Val
French Official
James Farley
Franklin Farnum
Al Ferguson
Mack Gray
Doorman-Lookout
Harrison Greene
Irate Customer
Kit Guard
Taresca's Driver
William Halligan
Men in Nightclub
Kenneth Harlan
Men in Nightclub
Harry Harvey
Max Hoffman Jr.
Driver
Cy Kendall
Crawley
Donald Kerr
Maxine Leslie
Eddie Marr
Taresca's Henchmen
Etta McDaniel
Lydia the Maid
Frances Morris
Secretary to Slant
Pat O'Malley
Prison Guard
Elsa Peterson
Mrs. Hanson
Paul Phillips
Cyril Ring
Dance Extra
Dick Rush
Bailiff
Harry Tyler
Fur Peddler
Dorothy Vaughan
Victoria Vinton
Emmett Vogan
U.S. Official
Max Wagner
Jim the Chauffeur
Ruth Warren
Billy Wayne
Barney the Bartender
Norman Willis
Isabel Withers
Club Couple
Melinda Wood Allen
Newsboy
Freeman Wood
Mr. Hanson
Armand "Curly" Wright
Barber
Joe Sawyer
Charlie
Sam Finn
Head Waiter
Kitty McHugh
Prisoners' Wives on Fer...
Georges Renevant
Helen Shipman
Sam Wren
Draughtsman
Gordon Kay
Charles Griffin
Federal Man
Jack Lubell
Brenda's Boy Friend
Jean O'Donnell
Mitzie Uehlein

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Raft is no Bogie.

May 1, 2010 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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