70,000 Witnesses
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70,000 Witnesses

First Football Murder Mystery!

5.7 / 10 1932 1h 11mNR English
Mystery

Storyline

College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses, but they player is doped anyway and collapses and dies. A detective has the whole game re-enacted to find important clues.

Cast & Crew

Phillips Holmes

Phillips Holmes

Buck Buchan

Lead
Dorothy Jordan

Dorothy Jordan

Dorothy Clark

Charles Ruggles

Charles Ruggles

Johnny Moran

Johnny Mack Brown

Johnny Mack Brown

Wally Clark

Lew Cody

Lew Cody

Slip Buchanan

David Landau

David Landau

Dan McKenna

J. Farrell MacDonald

J. Farrell MacDonald

State Coach

Kenneth Thomson

Kenneth Thomson

Dr. Collins

What People Are Saying

3.0
A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Ralph Murphy's vision lands with breathtaking precision.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
3.0
Every frame feels alive. 70,000 Witnesses is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker