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Howard Hawks
Director -
Sailor Vincent
Stunts -
John Lee Mahin
Dialogue -
Howard A. Anderson
Stunts -
Ben Hecht
Screenplay -
W.R. Burnett
Dialogue -
Lewis Milestone
Additional Editing -
Lee Garmes
Director of Photography
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CinemaSerf
6/13/2022 4:12:51PM
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!
Osgood Perkins
John 'Johnny' LovoEdwin Maxwell
Chief of DetectivesHoward Hawks
Man on Bed (uncredited)Harry J. Vejar
Big Louis Costillo (uncredited)Bill Elliott
Man Outside Theatre (uncredited)Paul Fix
Hood with Gaffney (uncredited)William B. Davidson
Citizens Committee Member (uncredited)Sailor Vincent
One of Costillo's Hoods (uncredited)