Below the Deadline is a 1936 English-language Crime Drama movie written by Ewart Adamson and directed by Charles Lamont and produced by George R. Batcheller. Molly Fitzgerald, who works for Abrams and Co. Jewelers (although the company safe reads Adams & Co. Jewelers), is accosted on the street by a stranger who asks her for a date, but her fiancé, police officer Terry Mulvaney chases him away. Spike, the stranger, is interested in Molly other than for her pretty face; he is a member of a gang of jewel thieves who are planning to rob Abrams and want to use her to obtain information regarding the merchant's shipments of jewels. Through another ruse, gang member Flash Ackroyd gets the information and, through careful planning, frames Terry for the robbery. One of Abrams' assistants is killed and Terry is charged with robbery and murder. Terry escapes but Molly is fired as Abrams thinks she was in on the robbery. Molly gets a job in a nightclub ran by the gangsters. The train on which Terry is escaping is wrecked and he is transported to a hospital dead than alive. Written by Les Adams. Below the deadline stars Cecilia Parker, Russell Hopton, Theodore Von Eltz, Thomas E. Jackson, Warner Richmond, John St. Polis and Harry Strang. Cinematography was done by M.A. Anderson and editing by Roland D. Reed. The movie has a running time of 64 minutes. It was released on 8th June 1936. Distribution rights for the film were acquired by Chesterfleld Motion Pictures Corporation.