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Lewis Milestone
Additional Editing -
Howard Hawks
Producer -
Ben Hecht
Screenplay -
John Lee Mahin
Dialogue -
W.R. Burnett
Dialogue -
Seton I. Miller
Dialogue -
Howard Hughes
Producer -
Sailor Vincent
Stunts
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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
GaffneyPaul Fix
Hood with Gaffney (uncredited)Howard Hawks
Man on Bed (uncredited)George Raft
Guino RinaldoJean Harlow
Blonde at Paradise ClubC. Henry Gordon
Insp. Ben GuarinoFrank Mills
Hood (uncredited)William B. Davidson
Citizens Committee Member (uncredited)