Dangerous Nan McGrew

June. 22,1930      NR
Rating:
4.8
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Dangerous Nan McGrew is the sharp-shooting expert of a traveling medicine show that is stranded in the Canadian northwest at the snowbound hunting lodge of wealthy Mrs. Benson. Nan is invited to put on a show for the benefit of Mrs. Benson's Christmas-Eve guests. While performing her boop-a-doop songs, Eustace Macy, the saxophone-tooting nephew of Mrs. Benson falls in love with Nan. And, then, the villain, the bank-robbing Doc Foster, makes his entrance. Can Dawes of the Royal Mounted be seen slushing in pursuit behind the gangster? Could Be.

Helen Kane as  Dangerous Nan McGrew
Victor Moore as  Muldoon
James Hall as  Bob Dawes
Stuart Erwin as  Eustace Macy
Frank Morgan as  Doc Foster
John Hamilton as  Grant
Robert Milasch as  Sheriff (as Robert Milash)
Roberta Robinson as  Clara Benson
Louise Closser Hale as  Mrs. Benson
Allan Forrest as  Godfrey Crofton

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