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Howard Hawks
Director -
Sailor Vincent
Stunts -
John Lee Mahin
Dialogue -
W.R. Burnett
Dialogue -
Howard A. Anderson
Stunts -
Lee Garmes
Director of Photography -
Lewis Milestone
Additional Editing -
Ben Hecht
Screenplay
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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!
Howard Hawks
Man on Bed (uncredited)Bill Elliott
Man Outside Theatre (uncredited)Tully Marshall
Managing EditorOsgood Perkins
John 'Johnny' LovoSailor Vincent
One of Costillo's Hoods (uncredited)Harry J. Vejar
Big Louis Costillo (uncredited)John Lee Mahin
MacArthur from the Journal (uncredited)William B. Davidson
Citizens Committee Member (uncredited)