A Man Betrayed (1936)

Frank Powell (Edward Nugent) has been selling shares in a new oil field. He finds out that his company is not really drilling for oil but instead has lost the money. His boss William Carlton (John Hamilton), overcome with remorse, commits suicide but his henchmen use their gangland connections to make it look like murder...

Frank is framed for the murder but manages to escape from the law. Assisted by his preacher brother Curtis (Lloyd Hughes) he sets out to clear his name. That's when the film really gets going and the action is thick and fast... and also sometimes confusing. Frank comes across as rather naive and wet but preacher Curtis is handy with his fists!

Not a bad little crime caper. The film, although fairly short, has plenty of strange tangents including one where Curtis has to fight in a boxing match in order to get help from some gangsters! Of course the guy Curtis is to fight is the man of the gangsters who framed Frank...