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Ben Hecht
Screenplay -
Howard Hughes
Producer -
Sailor Vincent
Stunts -
Roy Clark
Camera Operator -
Edward Curtiss
Editor -
Lewis Milestone
Additional Editing -
Howard Hawks
Director -
Charles Stallings
Production Manager
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CinemaSerf 6/13/2022 4:12:51 PM
Odd to see Howard Hawks on this genre, but he directs this workman-like gangster effort steadily, managing to convey some semblance of the environment of fear and violence without actually turning it into a visual gory bloodbath. Paul Muni may have had top billing, but for me George Raft steals this - charisma a-plenty. Boris Karloff appears oddly miscast, but Dvorak and Morley play the roles of the molls quite effectively and Osgood Perkins plays the cowardly bully Lovo well. Holds up remarkably after almost 90 years!
Boris Karloff
GaffneyFrank Mills
Hood (uncredited)Paul Fix
Hood with Gaffney (uncredited)Ann Dvorak
Francesca 'Cesca' CamontePurnell Pratt
Mr. Garston, publisherGeorge Raft
Guino RinaldoPaul Muni
Antonio 'Tony' CamonteHarry Tenbrook
One of Costillo's Hoods (uncredited)