Description

The 13th Man is a 1937 American mystery film directed by William Nigh and starring Weldon Heyburn, Inez Courtney and Selmer Jackson. The film is also known as The Thirteenth Man. It was the first film released by the relaunched Monogram Pictures after the studio withdrew from a merger with Republic Pictures.

Cast

• Weldon Heyburn as A. “Swifty” Taylor
• Inez Courtney as Julie Walters (Swifty’s secretary)
• Selmer Jackson as Andrew Baldwin (Globe Times publisher)
• Matty Fain as Louis Cristy (nightclub owner)
• Milburn Stone as Jimmy Moran (Globe Times reporter)
• Grace Durkin as Alice Moran (Baldwin’s secretary)
• Robert Homans as Police Lt. Tom O’Hara
• Eadie Adams as Stella Leroy (nightclub singer)
• Sidney Payne as “Legs” Henderson (fighter)
• Dewey Robinson as Romeo Casanova (radio singer / gym operator)
• William Gould (actor) as Dist. Atty. Robert E. Sutherland
• Warner Richmond as George Crandall the Bookie
• Eddie Gribbon as Iron Man’ (Swiftys bodyguard)

Soundtrack

• Eadie Adams – “My Topic of Conversation” (Written by Joseph Myro and Milton Royce)