LOVE BOUND aka Murder On The High Seas (1932) Jack Mulhall & Natalie Moorhead | Drama, Mystery | B&W

Love Bound is a 1932 American Pre-Code mystery film directed by Robert F. Hill and starring Jack Mulhall, Natalie Moorhead, Clara Kimball Young. It is a second feature produced by the Poverty Row studio Peerless Pictures. The film is also known as Murder on the High Seas, the alternative title it was later reissued under.

SYNOPSIS
A gold-digging woman wins a big settlement against an older married man, which threatens to destroy the man's family. His son, discovering that the woman is part of a ring of blackmailers and that she is planning to flee the country, takes along his hulking chauffeur and follows her onto an ocean liner. There the two pretend to be a pair of wealthy playboys so that the woman will make a play for him and try to blackmail him, too, so he can then expose her and prove his father's innocence. Complications ensue.

Gold-digging actress Verna Wilson demands money from a financial theatrical backer by falsely threatening to tell his wife that their relationship is more than professional. After he pays up his son Dick discovers that Verna is part of a gang of blackmailers and is now fleeing the country on an ocean liner. He boards the ship along with his chauffeur and the two pose as wealthy playboys in order that Verna will attempt to play the same trick on them. Dick and Verna instead fall in love, but things are complicated by the presence of her associates on board the ship, leading to a murder.

CAST & CREW
Jack Mulhall as Richard "Dick" Randolph, posing as Dick Rowland
Natalie Moorhead as Verna Wilson, alias Vera Wendall
Clara Kimball Young as Mrs. Jane Randolph
Edmund Breese as J.B. "Lucky" Morrison
Tom Ricketts as The Baron
Alice Day as Claudia Elliott
William V. Mong as Verna's Crooked Lawyer
Montagu Love as John Randolph
Richard Alexander as Larry, the Randolph Chauffeur, posing as J. B. "Lucky" Morrison
Roy D'Arcy as Juan de Leon
Lynton Brent as Jimmy Wilson
Sidney Bracey as Spriggins
Gordon De Main as Flynn - Private Detective
Robert F. Hill as Ship Passenger
Olaf Hytten as Ship Passenger
William H. O'Brien as Butler

Directed by Robert F. Hill
Written by James R. Gilbert, Robert F. Hill, George H. Plympton
Produced by Sam Efrus, Albert Herman
Cinematography E. Fox Walker
Edited by Earl Neville
Music by Lee Zahler
Production company Peerless Pictures
Distributed by Peerless Pictures
Release date March 1, 1932
Running time 61 minutes
Country United States
Language English

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