Bill Cracks Down
Lobby card
Directed byWilliam Nigh
Written byDorrell McGowan (screenplay)
Stuart E. McGowan (screenplay)
Story byMorgan Cox
Owen Francis
Produced byWilliam Berke (associate producer)
StarringGrant Withers
Beatrice Roberts
Ranny Weeks
Judith Allen
William Newell
CinematographyWilliam Nobles
Edited byEdward Mann
Production
company
Distributed byRepublic Pictures
Release date
  • March 22, 1937 (1937-03-22)
Running time
61 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Bill Cracks Down is a 1937 American action romantic drama film directed by William Nigh and starring Grant Withers, Beatrice Roberts, Ranny Weeks and Judith Allen. It was produced and distributed by Republic Pictures. The film was released under the alternative title Men of Steel in the United Kingdom.[1]

Plot

Bill Reardon runs a steel mill and is the idol of his workers; he'll forego his board meetings to challenge his workers in coal shoveling contests. His heart eventually gives out, but prior to his death he makes his will out with some unusual provisos. His playboy artist son Bill Junior returns from Paris to discover that in order to receive his inheritance he must work in the steel mill for one year with a false name, with the foreman "Tons" Walker being in charge of the mill. "Tons" decides to build Junior's character by changing him from an office file clerk to a hard working coal shoveling steel man. Junior plans his revenge by seducing "Tons"' fiancee.

Tagline

Men of Steel Meet Iron-Willed Women

Cast

Notes

  1. ^ p. 19 Martin, Len D. The Republic Pictures Checklist: Features, Serials, Cartoons, Short Subjects and Training Films of Republic Pictures Corporation, 1935-1959 McFarland; 2nd edition (5 May 2006)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bill Cracks Down.


Films directed by William Nigh
Categories