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The Frame-Up

1937 film

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ18914985 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Frame-Up is a 1937 American crime film directed by D. Ross Lederman.

Plot

Cast

Paul Kelly as Mark MacArthur

Julie Bishop as Betty Lindale (as Jacqueline Wells)

George McKay as Joe Lavery

Robert Emmett O'Connor as Larry Mann aka John Mench

Ray Bennett as Franey Forrester (as Raphael Bennett)

Wade Boteler as Police Captain Donovan

Edward Earle as Ellery Richards

C. Montague Shaw as James (J.R.) Weston

John Tyrrell as Soapy Connor (as Johnny Tyrrell)

Ted Oliver as Spud Gitale

Horace Murphy as Dr.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “The Frame-Up” as 1937 film. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Frame-Up and film.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1937—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1937. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Frame-Up and film providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “The Frame-Up”, the useful work is to connect “1937 film” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18914985. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1937.

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Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Frame-Up” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.