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Picture Snatcher (1933)

Director(s) Lloyd Bacon
Producer(s)

No producer listed for this movie
Top Genres Crime, Drama
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Picture Snatcher Overview:

Picture Snatcher (1933) was a Drama - Crime Film directed by Lloyd Bacon .

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Pre-Code vs Post-Code: "Picture Snatcher" and "Escape From Crime"

By David on Sep 27, 2014 From The Man on the Flying Trapeze

If you removed the atmosphere of breezy amorality from the 1933 film "Picture Snatcher," you wouldn't have much of a movie. And, sure enough, the 1942 film "Escape From Crime" isn't much of a movie. Both films are based on an original story by Danny Ahearn, but "Picture Snatcher" has that cheerful... Read full article

Pre-Code vs Post-Code: "Picture Snatcher" and "Escape From Crime"

By David on Sep 27, 2014 From The Man on the Flying Trapeze

If you removed the atmosphere of breezy amorality from the 1933 film "Picture Snatcher," you wouldn't have much of a movie. And, sure enough, the 1942 film "Escape From Crime" isn't much of a movie. Both films are based on an original story by Danny Ahearn, but "Picture Snatcher" has that cheerful... Read full article

"Picture Snatcher," or Cagney and Racy

By David on Nov 12, 2012 From The Man on the Flying Trapeze

Whenever I talk about my love for old James Cagney movies, my kids remind me of this clip from "Family Guy": To them, those movies are little more than that -- people in out-of-style clothes speedtalking to each other. To me, they're fast-moving star vehicles with a streetwise style, sharp wi... Read full article

"Picture Snatcher," or Cagney and Racy

By David on Nov 12, 2012 From The Man on the Flying Trapeze

Whenever I talk about my love for old James Cagney movies, my kids remind me of this clip from "Family Guy": To them, those movies are little more than that -- people in out-of-style clothes speedtalking to each other. To me, they're fast-moving star vehicles with a streetwise style, sharp wi... Read full article

Picture Snatcher (1933) (2)

By Lindsey on Jul 11, 2012 From The Motion Pictures

I’m a sucker for awesome DVD covers, and this one made it an absolute certainty that I needed to add Picture Snatcher to my collection. (Image via crslatnick.com, cropped by TMP) Danny Kean (James Cagney) is fresh off of a prison sentence and has a long track record of criminal involvement. Th... Read full article

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Picture Snatcher Quotes:

[Danny is giving a tour of his newspaper's printing room]
Journalism Student: Yes, here it is - white wood pulp, plain white... Why, today it's raw, but tonight it's cooked with printer's ink, photographic art, the sweat of creative effort. Tomorrow it goes out and hundreds of thousands of men and women feed their starving, mediocre souls on the indiscretions and adventures of others. And then, a little while later, what is it?
Danny Kean: Don't you know? They use it to wrap herring.
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Picture Snatcher Facts
First cinema film of Vaughn Taylor.
The scene of Danny photographing an execution is based an actual incident in which Chicago-based crime photographer Tom Howard (who was the grandfather of 'George Wendt') surreptitiously snapped the famous photo of convicted murderess Ruth Snyder's January 12, 1928 execution in the electric chair at Sing Sing for the New York Daily News.
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