''X Marks the Spot'' is a 1931 American

pre-Code Pre-Code Hollywood was an era in the Cinema of the United States, American film industry that occurred between the widespread adoption of sound in film in the late 1920s and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship gui ...

crime drama Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), dr ...

film directed by Erle C. Kenton and released by

Tiffany Pictures Tiffany Pictures, which also became Tiffany-Stahl Productions for a time, was a Hollywood motion picture studio in operation from 1921 until 1932. It is considered a Poverty Row studio, whose films had lower budgets, lesser-known stars, and overa ...

, which operated from 1921 to 1932. The source material was remade into a 1942 film of the same name. Helen Parrish appeared in both versions.

Plot

A newspaper reporter is indebted to a gangster for raising the money to save his little girl's life.

Cast

* Lew Cody as George Howard *

Sally Blane Sally Blane (born Elizabeth Jane Young; July 11, 1910 – August 27, 1997) was an American actress who appeared in more than 100 movies. Early life Blane was born in Salida, Colorado, moving to California with her family in 1916.Wallace Ford Wallace Ford (born Samuel Grundy Jones; 12 February 1898 – 11 June 1966) was an English–American vaudevillian, stage performer and screen actor. Usually playing wise-cracking characters, he combined a tough but friendly-faced demeanor with ...

as Ted Lloyd *

Fred Kohler Fredrick Louis Kohler (April 20, 1888 – October 28, 1938) was an American actor. Career Fred Kohler was born in Kansas City, Missouri or in Dubuque, Iowa. As a teen, he began to pursue a career in vaudeville, but worked other jobs to suppor ...

as Riggs * Mary Nolan as Vivian Parker * Virginia Lee Corbin as Hortense * Helen Parrish as young Gloria *

Joyce Coad Joyce Coad (April 14, 1917 – May 3, 1987) was an American child actress in motion pictures. Child prodigy Coad's foster father was Raymond E. Coad. By the age of five she became a reader of children's stories on radio station KHJ in Los Ang ...

as Gloria * Charles B. Middleton as Attorney *

Clarence Muse Clarence Muse (October 14, 1889 – October 13, 1979) was an American actor, screenwriter, director, singer, and composer. He was the first African American to appear in a starring role in a major studio film, 1929's '' Hearts in Dixie''. ...

as Servant

References

External links

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''New York Times'' contemporary review
* 1931 films Films directed by Erle C. Kenton Tiffany Pictures films 1931 crime drama films American crime drama films American black-and-white films Films about journalists 1930s English-language films 1930s American films English-language crime drama films {{1930s-crime-drama-film-stub