Sinners' Holiday
Ma Delano runs a penny arcade in Coney Island, living upstairs with her sons and daughter. Story involves rum-running, accidental murder and a frame-up.
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Sinners' Holiday is a 1930 American pre-Code all-talking crime drama film starring Grant Withers and Evalyn Knapp, and featuring James Cagney (in his film debut), Lucille La Verne, and Joan Blondell. It is based on the 1930 play Penny Arcade by Marie Baumer. Both Cagney and Blondell reprised the roles they played in the original Broadway production.[1][2]
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- Director
- John G. Adolfi
- Starring
- Grant Withers, Evalyn Knapp, Lucille La Verne, Warren Hymer, James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Noel Madison, Otto Hoffman
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