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Howard Hawks
Director -
W.R. Burnett
Dialogue -
Sailor Vincent
Stunts -
John Lee Mahin
Dialogue -
Howard A. Anderson
Stunts -
Lee Garmes
Director of Photography -
Lewis Milestone
Additional Editing -
Armitage Trail
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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)Osgood Perkins
John 'Johnny' LovoTully Marshall
Managing EditorFrank Mills
Hood (uncredited)Sailor Vincent
One of Costillo's Hoods (uncredited)John Lee Mahin
MacArthur from the Journal (uncredited)Edwin Maxwell
Chief of DetectivesWilliam B. Davidson
Citizens Committee Member (uncredited)