The lifestyles of Arlene and Valkyr Bradford, half-sisters from a respected San Francisco family, diverge markedly as Arlene takes up with criminals.
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| Bette Davis | ... | ||
| Donald Woods | ... |
Tony Sterling
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| Margaret Lindsay | ... |
Valkyr Bradford
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| Lyle Talbot | ... |
Spencer Carleton
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| Hugh Herbert | ... |
Izzy Wright
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| Arthur Byron | ... |
Everett Bradford
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| Robert Barrat | ... |
Thorne
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| Henry O'Neill | ... |
Porter
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| Irving Pichel | ... |
Jake Bello
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| Douglass Dumbrille | ... |
Mayard
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| Alan Hale | ... |
Chief O'Malley
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Gordon Westcott | ... |
Joe Bello
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| Charles C. Wilson | ... |
Detective Sgt. O'Hagen
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Harold Minjir | ... |
Archie Van Ness
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| William Demarest | ... |
Spike Smith
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Arlene Bradford is the quintessential high society bad girl. She's spoiled by Everett Bradford, her indulgently wealthy San Francisco father, who's recently become totally disgusted by her irresponsible antics. She has little regard for the law and the company she keeps. She has her investment broker fiancé Spencer Carlton involved in a stolen bond racket and flirts with local gangster types including the notorious Jake Bellow. The senior Bradford becomes concerned when Arlene begins to involve her half-sister Valkyr in her shady and highly dangerous activities. Written by [email protected]
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2 June 1934 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Dimma över Frisco See more »Company Credits
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Archie Van Ness: She's the only real Bradford daughter. Arlene's her stepsister.
Spike Smith: Say, she must be respectable. I've never seen her before.
Archie Van Ness: Say,I've picked Arlene off the blotter for everything from speeding to being picked up in Chinatown raids.
Izzy Wright: Oh, that I were young.
Archie Van Ness: And old Bradford's got more millions than there were Indians out here when her family landed.
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(1933) (uncredited)
Music by Harry Warren
Played by request by the nightclub band and as background music
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Bette Davis remarked that she looked back at this film with fondness, making it one of the few from the early part of her career that she would look at that way. See more »Quotes
Spike Smith: Say, Society, who's the gal dancing with TonyArchie Van Ness: She's the only real Bradford daughter. Arlene's her stepsister.
Spike Smith: Say, she must be respectable. I've never seen her before.
Archie Van Ness: Say,I've picked Arlene off the blotter for everything from speeding to being picked up in Chinatown raids.
Izzy Wright: Oh, that I were young.
Archie Van Ness: And old Bradford's got more millions than there were Indians out here when her family landed.
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Why Do I Dream Those Dreams?(1933) (uncredited)
Music by Harry Warren
Played by request by the nightclub band and as background music
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Look up lists of best murder mysteries and only three pre-1940 films appear: Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Thin Man. Both Morgue and Thin Man really stretch the point. There's no mystery in the former and the latter is really a comedy. It's not surprising that early films fail to make the list; they are infrequently seen. And when they are, modern sensibilities make them seem too old fashioned to rate high marks.
Fog Over Frisco is a forgotten gem that deserves to be high on anyone's list. It takes over from the early Philo Vance films in complexity and adds original twists, tension and action. The Warner Brothers stock company players are uniformly good but Bette Davis is amazing. The film doesn't follow a standard mystery format and avoids most of the clichés found in such films. It is fresh, exiting and original. Fog Over Frisco is far and away the best of its kind made up to its time (1934) and perhaps through the entire 1930s.