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