Discover
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Lewis Milestone
Additional Editing -
Howard Hawks
Director -
John Lee Mahin
Dialogue -
W.R. Burnett
Dialogue -
Seton I. Miller
Dialogue -
Ben Hecht
Screenplay -
Armitage Trail
Novel -
Howard Hughes
Producer
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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!
Howard Hawks
Man on Bed (uncredited)Paul Fix
Hood with Gaffney (uncredited)Boris Karloff
GaffneyDennis O'Keefe
Night Club Patron (uncredited)George Raft
Guino RinaldoJohn Lee Mahin
MacArthur from the Journal (uncredited)William B. Davidson
Citizens Committee Member (uncredited)William H. O'Brien
Waiter (uncredited)