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Racketeers flood the market with counterfeit cosmetics and drugs, causing some tragedies.Racketeers flood the market with counterfeit cosmetics and drugs, causing some tragedies.Racketeers flood the market with counterfeit cosmetics and drugs, causing some tragedies.
G. Pat Collins
- Gyp
- (as George Pat Collins)
Ben Hendricks Jr.
- Spike
- (as Ben Hendricks)
Oscar Apfel
- Digitalis Doctor
- (uncredited)
Harry C. Bradley
- Third Drug Store Proprietor
- (uncredited)
Matt Briggs
- Robert J. Wilbur
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaFinal film of director John Francis Dillon.
- GoofsWhen Jimmy and Higgins are fighting in the car, Higgins' position starts off behind the driver and ends up behind the passenger seat. However in the next cut when the fighting is shown through the car mirror, Wiggins's position is the opposite of how it should appear in the mirror.
- Quotes
Dutch Barnes: Don't you chumps know when you're licked?
- Crazy creditsOpening credits are shown over a background of coins and bills. Then the lead actors are shown above their written names.
- ConnectionsReferenced in This Is Your Life: Bette Davis (1971)
- SoundtracksFree
(uncredited)
Lyrics by Edward Heyman
Music by Dana Suesse
Played during the opening photo credits and often in the score
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luminous Davis
Although this is typical of the low-budget quickies that Warners churned out like hotcakes in the Thirties it offers Bette Davis in her most youthfully appealing "down-to-earth platinum blonde girl" phase. You can find the same character in THREE ON A MATCH, THE GIRL FROM 10TH AVENUE, THE PETRIFIED FOREST and others. She exudes an innocent but intelligent, unaffected femininity that seems to have evaporated by the time she hit her stride with JEZEBEL, so it's good that this phase of her career is preserved - if only to track her evolution as an actress. Note the energy and vitality she injects (perhaps effortlessly) into a supporting role as the girlfriend-wife, stealing every scene she's in - without relying on conventional beauty. It's kind of fun also to see how the scenarists managed to leap from one implausible, contrived plot development to the next - but that's a secondary matter because most of these films were beyond belief. The point was to make a moral point, not to be narratively convincing. The point here being: evil gangsters, beware of the authorities because they'll get you!
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- Runtime1 hour 4 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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