Emergency Squad (1940)
Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies where lives are at stake. Slade Wiley, an unscrupulous tunnel builder, finds that his low bid on the Newford Tunnel project is causing him to lose a lot of money, and has underworld leader Nick Burton set off blasts to frighten the stockholders into selling their shares at a low price so he can buy up the stock. Betty is investigating the deal when Wiley and Burton take her on a "tour trip" to the tunnel.
- Released
- 1940-01-05
- Genres
- Drama, Action, Crime
- Runtime
- 58 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Edward Dmytryk, Stuart Palmer, Garnett Weston
- TMDB rating
- 7.0/10 from 2 votes
Cast
- William Henry as Peter Barton
- Louise Campbell as Betty Bryant
- Richard Denning as Dan Barton
- Robert Paige as Chester 'Chesty' Miller
- Anthony Quinn as Nick Buller
- John Miljan as Slade Wiley
- John Marston as Lt. Murdock
- Joseph Crehan as H. Tyler Joyce, editor
- Sam Ash as Fireman
- Barbara Barondess as Ada Miller
- Henry Blair as Ada's Son
- Stanley Blystone as Mack - Emergency Squad Sergeant