Directed by:
Charles BrabinScreenplay:
Ben HechtCinematography:
Norbert BrodineCast:
Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford, Jean Hersholt, Dorothy Peterson, Tully Marshall, John Miljan, J. Carrol Naish, Edward Brophy, Tom London (more)Plots(1)
A reluctantly appointed police chief in a crime-riddled city takes his job seriously and works hard to clean the streets of gangsters and to shape up his own corrupt department in this brutal, gritty film noir. Jean Harlow plays a luminescent but ill-fated gun moll. (official distributor synopsis)
Cast
Walter Huston
Canada
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Jean Harlow
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Wallace Ford
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Jean Hersholt
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Dorothy Peterson
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Tully Marshall
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John Miljan
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J. Carrol Naish
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Edward Brophy
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Tom London
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Mickey Rooney
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Frank LaRue
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George Chandler
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Nat Pendleton
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Leo White
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Charles Sullivan
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Chuck Hamilton
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Robert Homans
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Sherry Hall
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Ethan Laidlaw
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