Parole Fixer is a 1940 American crime film directed by Robert Florey.

Parole Fixer
Directed byRobert Florey
Screenplay byWilliam R. Lipman
Horace McCoy
Based onPersons in Hiding
1938 book
by J. Edgar Hoover
Produced byEdward T. Lowe Jr.
StarringWilliam Henry
Lyle Talbot
Virginia Dale
Richard Denning
Anthony Quinn
Robert Paige
CinematographyHarry Fischbeck
Edited byHarvey Johnston
Music byGerard Carbonara
John Leipold
Leo Shuken (uncredited)
Production
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Paramount Pictures
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • February 2, 1940 (1940-02-02)
Running time
58 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover is credited for the source material, the 1938 book called Persons in Hiding, a purported expose of corruption within the parole system.

Plot

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Gangster "Big Boy" Bradmore is wrongly paroled from prison and promptly murders an FBI agent.

Cast

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