I Promise to Pay

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Eddie Lang, a decent family man making $27.50 a week, borrows fifty-dollars from Richard Farra in order to take his wife, Mary and two small children on a vacation. He soon finds himself in the merciless clutches of Marra and his loan-shark gang. In desperation he tells his story to the district attorney, J.E.Curtis—only to be shot down on the steps of the Hall of Justice.

• Chester Morris as Eddie Lang
• Leo Carrillo as Richard Farra
• Helen Mack as Mary Lang
• Thomas Mitchell as District Attorney J.E. Curtis
• Thurston Hall as Police Captain Hall
• John Gallaudet as Al Morton - aka Johnson
• Patsy O'Connor as Judy Lang
• Wallis Clark as B.G. Wilson
• James Flavin as Bill Seaver
• Edward Keane as Mike Reardon
• Harry Woods as Henchman Fats
• Henry Brandon as Henchman Fancyface
• Marc Lawrence as Henchman Whitehat