
What Doesn't Kill You(2008)
Two childhood friends from South Boston turn to crime as a way to get by, ultimately causing a strain in their personal lives and their friendship.


John 'Dusty' King
Sgt. Dan Prescott

William Lundigan
Pvt. Smith / Bill Clarke

Constance Moore
Helen Evans

Larry J. Blake
Trigger Magee

J. Farrell MacDonald
Charlie Wheeler

David Oliver
Corporal Duffy

Ted Osborne
Jack Evans

Pierre Watkin
Col. C.B. Clarke

Guy Usher
Hughes

Charles C. Wilson
Captain Halstead
State Police is a action, crime, drama, romance film released in 1938 exploring themes of coal miner, racketeering. Directed by John Rawlins, it stars John 'Dusty' King, William Lundigan, Constance Moore. The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.
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